Finance Manager - Anonymous employee Xcel Energy Employee Review

2.0
Mar 16, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Financial stability of the company and job security (regulated industry)

Cons

Corporate culture is very negative and stale. Because of the pension (not applicable to new hires) mediocre performers stay in the company for their entire career stewing over decade-long conflicts. The company is insanely political - to be promoted and (most importantly) retain your ground one needs to be aligned with powerful advocates all the way up the chain. The political wind often change as the company go through at least one reorg per year in order to divvy up the empire based on the flavor of the day i.e. who are the most powerful favorites and their cronies. It is also very backward company in terms of technology, workforce diversity and promoting minorities. The fairy tales they tell you on their website are exactly what they are - fairly tales.

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Cons

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Pros

Standard methods, cloud infrastructure, and reliance on in house staff over contractors makes it very easy to implement safe, fast, consistent changes. You will be valued as a human and you will have a voice within this company. You can make a career here. Your coworkers and immediate leadership are all talented and intelligent individuals who actually know how to do the same work you are doing.

Cons

AI rollout and unevenly applied hybrid work made things difficult for employees with disabilities and those that lived far from office who had traditionally worked remote or for tasks that do not lend themselves well to AI overhead

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