Good company, good leadership - Senior Analyst Portland General Electric Employee Review

Great place to build a career. There are strong opportunities for internal movement and development, and leadership genuinely seems to care about employees and the culture. The benefits are excellent, particularly the retirement and 401(k) programs. Like any publicly traded company, there is a focus on performance, accountability, and delivering results, so if you’ve worked in an environment that reports earnings and manages to shareholder expectations, you’ll find the pace and expectations familiar. Overall, a purpose-driven organization with meaningful work and good people.

- company in transition -communication noise

The pay and most of the benefits are good, the work is meaningful and helps serve the community, and the people in the rank and file are exceptional.

Culture: extremely toxic and two faced management. Our department recently hired people who relocated to Portland for the job. A few months later at our department meeting, our manager threatened us with the possibility of layoffs. This made the newer folks question their decision to move here. Later, during the spring connections meeting with executives, that flat out denied any planned layoffs. Someone is being dishonest. Work/life balance: my department is all salaried, overworked, and never truly benefit from being in a salaried position. You must ALWAYS work your forty hours and then some. Dishonesty: job candidates are told all manner of things about working at PGE only to have the rug pulled out from under them once they learn of their department expectations. Do not count flex time, your show up location being anywhere near your residence, or many opportunities to advance or move departments. PGE is also soliciting positive, scripted reviews on this platform. I have watched PGE’s Glassdoor rating climb from about 3.7 to 4.3 in the past two years, the same period of time in which there have been layoffs, the customer affordability commitment resulting in squeezing employees for doing even more with less, and otherwise resulting in an even more toxic workplace. Our annual employee engagement survey score, which is a balance between the questions of “do you enjoy working at PGE?” and “would you recommend PGE as a place to work?” Is 69 percent… PGE should just own that instead of artificially and dishonestly skewing their Glassdoor score in order to bait people into applying for jobs here. Safety: as long as my department has existed, the practice of laying out work while driving has been the expectation and the norm. This was reported anonymously to the company and our departments response was to completely gaslight us. They held a meeting where they stated “PGE has a very strict distracted driving policy. You may not use technology while operating a PGE vehicle. If you need help while mapping, ask a coworker.” But how do they think the person help drive them around is going to get their work finished? How does a person layout 20 miles of work in a day if they aren’t doing it behind a wheel?