Pros
Many great people as coworkers who are dedicated and intelligent. Your work is in service to the public and a basic necessity. 25% off your PGE bill. An interesting time to be in energy and for a medium-sized utility PGE is pretty progressive. The strategy is to fight climate change and that’s inspiring. Lots of job variety. Electric vehicle workplace charging. A generous parental leave. Many work locations depending on the type of work you do. Access to PGE Parks. Mass transit pass. Ample 401K match.
Cons
They pay lip service to diversity and inclusion but don’t actually live it (the number of black employees that have been "performance managed" out is staggering meanwhile white heterosexual men have repeatedly been appointed to high profile positions with no formal process; women across the company are talking about the rampant “bro culture” that does not appear to be a red flag to leadership; there is much handwringing about how much “risk” to take in making a stand where other local companies have already done so, i.e. whether to hang pride flags). The soul of the organization is being squashed out by a lackluster officer team that appears to be operating from a place of fear of both the CEO and competition. The two newest officers are more competent but the CIO is provocative for the sake of being so demonstrating flagrant toxic behaviors and being celebrated for it. This used to be a place that cared about the people — to a fault. While things need to change and drastically so, they will fail as they are awash with people in leadership that don’t know how to lead. Talented good employees are jumping ship left and right and senior leadership’s response is that they weren’t a good culture fit. Meanwhile, they are maintaining toxic and/or ineffective people in leadership because they are “strategic.” The place is chaos — people frantically trying to do what they’re held accountable to do in the name of competitive threat meanwhile backstabbing coworkers, blaming, not being accountable and creating utter swirl such that very little gets done.