Duke Energy reviews

3.9

67% would recommend to a friend

(2,073 total reviews)
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Lynn J. Good

73% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Duke Energy has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,073 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Duke 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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1.0
May 28, 2014
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Pros

Good pay, stable job. Generally good benefits.

Cons

Incompetent management pervasive throughout company, very slow movement up or down ladder; A LOT of bureaucracy to deal with every day. Company generally extremely inflexible. Expect people less competent to be promoted. Similar to government work in that almost 20% of the workforce has "checked out" and will avoid any work. The best educator for what it's like for most (not all!) Duke Employees? Read Dilbert.

1.0
Feb 27, 2014

Declining Fast

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Pros

Good Pay, benefits, that's really all the pros i can list at this time

Cons

Horrible management, people come last, after merger with Progress constant negative change such as removing benefits, schedule changes, moral is bad

3.0
Dec 15, 2013
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Pros

I have worked for Duke Energy for 35 years, so I am paid a good salary..at least for this area. The benefits are average. Since I have been here so long, I get 6 weeks vacation. That's a great benefit...if I actually get to use it.

Cons

Compared to other utilities, Duke is well known to be one of the lowest paying utility companies, especially in Nuclear. Compared to other companies, Duke's health care costs are high. Management, at least Nuclear, is not supportive or even respect employees. They often say one thing and do another. They have personally lied to me several times. They point fingers and blame employees but when asked for details they cannot provide facts to support blaming individuals. Expectations for themselves is lower than what they expect of individual workers. Duke expects you to wear a beeper 24/7 and be available for call out and come to work within 75 minutes but there is no compensation for this. They do not respect work/life balance. More and more they expect doing more work with fewer people. They expect workers to just absorb work when people leave.

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