RWE npower Reviews

I worked at RWE npower as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – The new culture that the company CEO Paul Massara has roled out alongside the customer transformation programme is definitely the way forward. This new look at how the business approaches its customers will enhance the comapnys reputation and help it to retain the existing and new customers it works hard to maintain.

Cons – The staff are complacent and change resistant. Management have a tendancy to Silo channels of workloads, instead of thinking end to end solutions. The chain of communications has been aided recently with skip level meetings, but the changes being roled out are being met by resistant staff due to failed previous role outs, and communication battles outside of the skip level meetings.

Advice to Senior Management – The discipline of staff at one particular site is very minimal and the feeling that people are allowed to get away with unnacepable behaviours breeds more and more staff who think this way. A stricter management role needs to start dealing with the people who turn up to get paid ratherthan those who turn up to do the best for the customers. Less hierarchy is needed to be able to get issues dealt with at lower levels. Hr need to be more involved and the union less so.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at RWE npower full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Not stressful, good worklife balance.
Generally willing to invest resources in training.
Nice office with good restaurant .
Gym (apparently).

Cons – Slow progression, benefits and flexibility could be better.
Recent reduction in staff has resulted in lower levels of expertise.
Achievement and exceptional results not rewarded / distinguished.
Uninspiring location.

Advice to Senior Management – Better rewards for performance.
Clearer strategy

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at RWE npower full-time for more than a year

Pros – A lot of experienced people to learn from, a lot of oportunities to move between departments and subsidiries. Great for grads.

Cons – Swindon is not the most pleasant city in the world.

Advice to Senior Management – Good job, guys. I really enjoyed time in the company. It is just a time to move on.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at RWE npower full-time for more than a year

Pros – Benefits and pay are above average for tech role.

Good colleagues to work with at ground level, some of which are highly talented and underrated.

Some improvements to delivery areas in recent times.

Cons – Senior Management not understanding their sub-teams treating them in a broad brush manner with edicts, showing inflexibility and lack of understanding especially of how technical teams work.

Highly politicised, focusing on what the perception of the team is to other departments.

Feels like a lack of trust in their staff to do the job.

Poor planning, with unreasonable expectations of delivery in some areas.

Constant Reshuffles / restructuring make the working environment feel uneasy and people demoralised.

Management and teams not communicating vertically or horizontally, with a lack of understanding or overview of what each team does.

there's a high turnover of permanent technical staff. Most seem to leave within a 12-18 month window, leaving one or two teams under-resourced and difficult to hire for. Contractors seem to wield more power and are treated better than permanent staff in some areas.

Advice to Senior Management – Please start treating people as humans, not as just a place in an org chart.

Understand more about how a delivery can happen within a team if you treat them as adults not children. Place your trust in your staff more to deliver and support them positively.

So long as the team delivers, it's all that matters. It should not be about how the outside view to other departments is. Good results will speak for themselves, so communicate genuine success.

Admit when things aren't going as well as you'd like, and communicate in an open and honest fashion if this is the case, not sweeping it under the carpet.

Make concerted effort to positively retain your staff by engaging with them in a sincere fashion. We're all trying to achieve the same thing for the greater good of the company and customer.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at RWE npower full-time for less than a year

Pros – full support and easy to progress

Cons – recently they are cutting down on jobs.

Advice to Senior Management – have employee feedback all the way to top in 1 annunal meeting.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at RWE npower

Pros – Nice location, Good facilities, Free parking

Cons – Little known about life in the real world and real people.

Advice to Senior Management – Please thnk about being able to have staff take responsibilty for their actions and not seek to pass tasks and work on to other areas.....

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at RWE npower

Pros – 9-5 job - no overtime.

Cons – Very political ex civil service organsiation - lack of communication and vision.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at RWE npower

Pros – Good focus on personal development

Cons – Too many managers that hindered progress and decision making
Too risk averse

Advice to Senior Management – Delayer

I have been working at RWE npower

Pros – Lots of opportunity to move around the company and work in different areas to develop skills outside area of expertise. Most locations have flexible working hours and there are a great deal of very highly skilled people employed here.

Cons – No performance related bonus. Some stubborn HR policies.

Advice to Senior Management – What is the company strategy? No clear messages from board level about what npower intend to do in the future. UK generation industry needs massive reform in coming years- where does npower see itself in the future market?

I have been working at RWE npower

Pros – Flexible working and good work colleagues

Cons – Lots of reshuffles and constant changes

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend