Bloom Energy reviews

• Work life balance - for so long this company was striving to go public and working so hard to reach that goals, then they did go it and now they're constantly fighting tooth and nail to have good earnings numbers so the stock price goes up. It's always a rush to the finish line at end of quarter to meet goals. Everyone around you has a do-whatever-it-takes mentality and because you don't want to let them down, you do the same. It can really take a toll on people after a while and isn't very sustainable. • Career progression - if you come in at a lower level, you REALLY have to advocate for yourself (and get a manager to then advocate for you) to move up and get salary increases and promotions. If that's not happening, after two years you're probably better off just finding a new job • CleanER, Not clean energy - The marketing can make it seem like Bloom boxes are this perfect, totally clean mean green solution. Yes, they're working on different things like bio gas and carbon capture etc. and yes, there are situations where Bloom's product makes more sense than wind/solar for reasons such as reliability and space constraints, weather... but you're still mostly using natural gas in the US and emitting CO2. I do believe that Bloom has a place in the roadmap to saving the planet, but it's nuanced. Due to the notion that we're running out of time to prevent climate change, I fear policy makers and potential customers will not view Bloom as aggressive enough of a solution.

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?