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Full-timePart-timeGreat culture and work life balance (in 11 reviews)
Fantastic work environment with lot of learning (in 17 reviews)
Not much opportunity for full time job for civil engineers (in 12 reviews)
there is lots of office politics going on (in 7 reviews)
I have been working at Toronto Hydro full-time
Pros
Great culture and work life balance.
Cons
Hard to assess career growth.
I have been working at Toronto Hydro full-time
Pros
Great culture and great people
Cons
Immature Org in terms of development
I worked at Toronto Hydro full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Comfortable Friendly Environment, Helpful peers, Great Compensation
Cons
Old School Management, Sometimes Inflexible Staff
Advice to Management
Embrace new ideas from employees to grow as a company
I worked at Toronto Hydro full-time
Pros
Good place to work and pay good salary
Cons
Take long times to promoted
Advice to Management
None
Pros
Little to no in house politics
Great work environment
Flexible hours
Great internship experience
Cons
Doesn't have very competitive pay scale compared with other utilities
Helpful (2)
Pros
+ Competitive Salary
+ Great benefits
+ Good work/life balance
+ Central location
+ Friendly coworkers
+ Interesting work
+ Great learning/education opportunities
Cons
- Extremely bureaucratic (MAJOR power struggles all over the organization, which made it difficult to get anything productive done)
- The culture was brutal between management and union staff, and meanwhile HR was submitting awards for 'best company culture' which was laughable
- Very flat organization, no opportunities for growth and promotions. Only certain divisions (HR and engineering fields) ever had ppl rising in the org.
- Difficult to become full-time, many employees remained on contracts for years
- Many managers have been flagged by employees to HR and nothing has been done. A few departments have a revolving door of talent coming and going just as fast.
- Company lacks transparency and is very secretive. No one ever knew what was happening as there was hardly any internal communications. Most ppl found out major company news through the media/front-page story.
- Many silos within the organization
- Little-to-no company engagement (very few company-building events, social activities, etc.)
Advice to Management
- Listen to employees. They care about the well-being of the organization just as much as you do, but if you never ask for their opinion, you'll never be able to improve this organization and its toxic culture.
I worked at Toronto Hydro (More than a year)
Pros
- Stable job if you're a full-time employee
- Great learning opportunities (very unique challenges)
- Fairly casual and low stress environment
Cons
- Interns and new grads are treated poorly (undervalued and on contracts)
- Not at the forefront of utility development even though they're so large
Helpful (1)
Pros
Friendly environment
good pay
big breakfast on Fridays
Cons
there is lots of office politics going on
Advice to Management
Try to be more involved with employees
Helpful (6)
I worked at Toronto Hydro full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Pay, benefits, pension and hours are all excellent and very competitive. You actually work so few hours that it is easy to pick up a second job.
Cons
Politics, inefficiencies and toxic culture makes the place unbearable. Unfortunately this negates any pros mentioned above and I would not recommend Toronto Hydro if you want to build a fulfilling career. This place is not what it used to be 25 yrs ago.
Advice to Management
Take your exit interviews and employee complaints seriously instead of turning a blind eye on the underlying issues and problematic employees who are turning away your valuable talent.
Pros
- great people, learned a lot about the company, the work was meaningful,
- my manager was readily accessible and was helpful
Cons
- some of the projects were expensive
Advice to Management
- try to think of ways to reduce the price of electricity as it can start to get expensive
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