Pros
Great place if you want stability, offers great benefits and profit participation. Depending on management, can be a great place to work. Depending on your work group, opportunities for growth. Once you're hired by the company, you're practically guaranteed lifetime employment as company is reluctant to fire people with known workplace problems.
Cons
* 18 month residency rule--you must be in your current position for 18 months before you can apply for other jobs. Even if you get promoted, this resets your 18 month clock. I've seen management promote people just so they don't transfer out after their residency ends (tip: you can turn down promotions). * Uneven promotion criteria. I've seen people get promoted who don't even meet the criteria outlined by the Manager 3 of what it took for promotion (none of the promoted met the criteria). * Lack of qualified managers or management training. For example Cost Estimating is being run by an MBA grad a couple years out of business school who said he wanted to make employees happy, wanted to focus on career development, wanted a work environment based on respect and teamwork; but has made decisions and changes that proved quite the contrary. * Very bureaucratic company. Lack of teamwork. I agree with the reviewer if there was an open market, SCE would be very slow to make necessary changes. Right now, it's an overbloated company. Seems like more managers and employees are hired to fuel bureaucratic needs (i.e. managers hired to coordinate expectations and requests between two work groups). * Bad hiring decisions. I've seen managers with hardly any applicable experience and no people skills being hired. For example the managers running TDBU Cost Estimating have no actual cost estimating experience and haven't even gone through the process of estimating a project. They make major changes without even consulting existing employee. * Too many employees close to retirement who are just phoning it in. Seriously, this is a drag on morale as younger people are picking up the slack.