Great Company Overall, Less than Stellar Upper Management - Anonymous employee Potter Electric Employee Review

Good place to work and stuff

No cons, just trying to use Glassdoor

Its a job and company seems reasonably stable for now.

Potter Signal used to be a decent place to work, however private equity buyout and poor management has definitely changed that. The CEO cares nothing about the average employee and it shows. He came from Beldin where he "Left for personal reasons". If you aren't familiar, this is corporate speak for saying they fired him but allowed him to save face and resign and you can certainly see why. He is extremely unprofessional. Several employees I know say they have been yelled at and insulted by him. There is very little room for promotion or growth here. It doesn't help that the CEO demoted several long tenured employees to bring in his friends from his previous company. Most of the employees that were demoted were women and I don't think that is a coincidence. Being hybrid was one of the only real standout benefits they offered and of course they recently took that way as well. They have a goal of tripling the size of the company and selling it in a few years. This is probably not realistic even in a good economy so they are going to squeeze every dime they can out of it by cutting benefits and pay to the least they can get away with. They will talk about a "bonus" employees will get, but only if they meet their crazy sale price target, and they won't do that, so don't be fooled. In the mean time there will be no yearly or quarterly bonus for you. There is no telling what will happen when the company is sold, also they seem to be considering breaking it up so it's risky to take a position here for the long term.