Great place to work - until you try to do something new - Anonymous employee Xcel Energy Employee Review

3.0
Mar 8, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work life balance is achievable here. Excellent PTO program. Decent benefits, though the HDHP is expensive and awful. Real effort over the past several years to increase employee engagement. People across the company are honest, work very hard, and genuinely do the right thing to keep customer costs down.

Cons

Salaries are merely average, and management seems to be working to push them lower overall. Extremely limited opportunities for promotion and advancement. Management likes to talk about the aging/retiring workforce but opportunities to move within the company (even laterally) are few and far between. Most every organization hires from within, so we have a company of extremely specialized employees who have only ever seen their specific part of the business.

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Pros

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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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