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    Toronto Hydro Reviews

    Updated 30 December, 2018
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    Anthony M. Haines
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    Pros

    • "Great culture and work life balance" (in 16 reviews)

    • "Great management structure, exposures to heavily regulated industry, great senior management team, friendly work environment" (in 20 reviews)

    Cons

    • "Difficult to get a full-time role" (in 13 reviews)

    • "there is lots of office politics going on" (in 7 reviews)

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    1. "intern student"

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      • Senior Management
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      professional working environment, great learning experience

      Cons

      nothing I can think of about it

    2. "PMO @ Toronto Hyrdo"

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      Current Employee - Worked As Program Management Consultant in Toronto, ON
      Current Employee - Worked As Program Management Consultant in Toronto, ON
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Toronto Hydro full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Good benefits, good office space. Several locations in the city available to travel.

      Cons

      You will not apply nor gets any project management experience, but will just follow processes. Robust company with tons of documents and useless metrics. Work is tedious and repetitive. High turnaround in PMO, due to dissatisfaction of current employees. Management treats you like garbage because your not a union.

      Advice to Management

      Apply project and program management practices to have your work more efficiently completed. Stop overloading current staff, thinking it is normal to do so.

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    3. "Technical Student"

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      Former Employee - Student Technical Assistant in Toronto, ON
      Former Employee - Student Technical Assistant in Toronto, ON
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Toronto Hydro (More than a year)

      Pros

      The workload is easy to handle

      Cons

      you could gain little from the internship

    4. Helpful (2)

      "not the best company to work for within the electricity sector"

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      Former Employee - Analyst
      Former Employee - Analyst
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Toronto Hydro full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      flexible hours, no one keeps track

      Cons

      The company doesn't know how to use their resources and capital efficiently...and are soooo slow in how they operate. Instead of investing so much into useless things like advertising, they need to invest in better equipment, human capital, and profitable business opportunities.

      Certain individuals within the company are worked to the extreme, while others are selfish and will perform the bare minimum. I can't believe how many times I've caught employees using company time to go on long coffee breaks, chill at the nearby shopping centres, do online shopping, and have personal phone calls with their spouses.

      College station HQ is the worse & most dangerous location to work at.

      Advice to Management

      I strongly advise management to be more strict on monitoring their employees, and to actually try balancing the workloads of contract workers & full-timers.
      Also, try considering to implement some mental health support programs please.

    5. "Review"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Program Management Consultant
      Current Employee - Program Management Consultant
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Toronto Hydro full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Great work life balance and benefits.

      Cons

      Poor, outdated IT systems.
      Departments work in silos.

    6. "Stable, Meaningful, Sometimes Dull"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Toronto Hydro full-time

      Pros

      Stable job, smart people around you, meaningful work that impacts the city

      Cons

      Management can get carried away in politics, sometimes work can be dull and innovation stiffled

    7. "Senior Technical Student"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      - Very friendly environment
      - Coworkers and superiors always willing to help if you give them a shout
      - Superiors will always reply to or follow up on requests to learn more about points of interest, to further a student's experience

      Cons

      - Much of the improvement that occurred in my department was directly dealt with by the lead, not much room for one to implement their own improvements, only suggest

      Advice to Management

      - Allow students to take a more hands on role so that they leave experiences or a project that they can use as an example of their capabilities, as opposed to just doing day to day work

    8. "Senior Technical Student"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Toronto Hydro full-time

      Pros

      Networking and industry experience is decent.

      Cons

      The Co-op work is Basic

      Advice to Management

      Job rotation

    9. "Customer Relations Representative"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      You are trained for any task you are expected to perform. Excellent support from colleagues and supervisors.

      Cons

      Lack of variety. It can get a bit monotonous at times

    10. "Business Analyst"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Toronto Hydro full-time

      Pros

      Great culture and work life balance.

      Cons

      Hard to assess career growth.