American Electric Power reviews

I have been with AEP over 8 years. Sometime in 2020 I feel like leadership just broke. It was much better prior to that. Or maybe I was still too new to notice the issues. Since 2020 there is constant, seemingly arbitrary, leadership and organizational change. There is never any change management or even decent communication about why changes are happening. Major changes never get an opportunity to be tested, socialized, and evaluated because shortly after implementation they’re scrapped for the next change. I have been here long enough now to see many people fail up to senior leadership, repeatedly! Poster child for corporate politics and BS, all of it obscure and opaque to the average employee, which can be demoralizing. Career opportunities is a mixed bag. You can learn a lot here through exposure and opportunities to take on big things with little prior experience. But, There are not a lot of opportunities to climb the ladder in terms of title and salary. That has recently been flattened.

Upheaval over the past three years. Layoff and or reorgs at LEAST once a year, sometimes twice a year. Workers that remain have double the work. ONLY required work getting funded. Employees are getting burnt out.