Bloom Energy reviews

3.3

61% would recommend to a friend

(456 total reviews)
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KR Sridhar

67% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Bloom Energy has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 456 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bloom Energy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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456 reviews
1.0
Nov 28, 2023

Poor place to work

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Pros

There are none at all

Cons

Everything management is a joke. The only way to get promoted is to kiss butt. They lie to you when they interview you to work here and now they are moving two plants to Mexico just so K.R can put more money in his pocket. Worst place ever to work

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Bloom Energy Response
2y
Hello, thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback with us. For concerns regarding our interview process or your role, we encourage you to share these details with your manager or your local HR business partners. Thank you.
1.0
Jul 21, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

None. Do not join this company until the below mentioned cons are addressed.

Cons

Why this company is not profitable after 20 Years? Diversity is great, no question about it. Promoting diversity does not mean you promote in-eligible and in-capable persons to be directors. Everyone in the company knows who I am talking about. Everyone who was hired by the so called referral process by a existing company employee who was a manager or a friend of the hiring manager got a good salary offer then others who came without any referral. Where does those extra pay come from ? Hard working passionate employees get less salary. Why was a VP from India who was not a founding member of Bloom Energy was on the 2018 NYSE main stage for the going public event? Why was he allowed and who pulled him into the main stage even though he was not a founding member? Preferential treatment. Huge disparity in salary in India's salary structure - average employees getting 10lack/year vs some persons getting 50lack to 1cr /year? Why? Salary is supposed to be based on local market conditions, not based on if the person transferred from US to India. Go hire the excellent talent available in India, no need to import POS from US to India and pay them 1 to 2 Crore / year. Progression of employees's career who came through referral are much faster than those who came without referral. As an example a director who has been working for 10 years did not get to the VP level(there is only one such person). But, a Sr. Engineer who worked in engineering got promoted to VP level!. How - Preferential treatment at work. People leave this company since they want better salary outside and they do not have passion. Why does this company re-hire them back as Sr.Director (couple of levels up when they left bloom energy). So it is that desperate that you have to re-hire people who leave bloom by giving them extra salary and promotion? Here is a challenge to the HR - Put out a survey asking employees asking them about preferential treatment and hiring and promoting of same caste employees. Ask employees to provide name of the relations between the manager and their relatives or friends. Look at salary disparity. You will be surprised. The trick this company uses to hide preferential treatment is to keep the base salary in the range so that DOL will not be able to statistically prove discrimination. Instead give a lot of stocks to the preferentially treated employees. Any person(average empooyee) who is working in this company for more than 4 years, you are getting screwed salary wise. Instead of keeping up with market conditions and giving you proper salary adjustments, they will instead go hire new talent from outside and pay them way more salary than you even at the same level. This is so that they can push employees who worked for several years. This company wants employees to only work for 3 to 4 years. After that they want them to leave. Why? Because if you work for more than 4 years, you will be able to identify the above mentioned patterns and discrimination charges can be brought by DOL. Can even become a class action law suit. If this company needs to be profitable, the change has to be from the top. All preferentially treated persons based on various system (friend, caste, white, Indian, so called diversity) needs to be flushed out. Pull in passionate talent and pay them top salary to retain them. Every Director and VP needs to be re examined . How they got there? Referral or No Referral? Affirmative action?

2.0
Oct 18, 2022

CEO should resign

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I worked with amazing people in all departments

Cons

100 % turnover in past few years from all dept. heads. CEO spent $14M in consultants, etc to try to find the root cause of slow sales.....did not find anything new. Leadership is lost there. Stay clear.

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Bloom Energy Response
3y
Thank you for your contributions to Bloom Energy and for providing feedback. We do have an amazing employee base and appreciate your acknowledgement of that. We are sorry to hear about your frustrations with leadership and turnover while employed at Bloom. We are on a path of transformation that ultimately drives change and therefore, some turnover across the organization will exist. Again, we appreciate all the hard work you contributed to Bloom Energy. - HR Jen
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