Fairly Nice Place to Work - Manager NRG Energy Employee Review

4.0
Nov 14, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Nice offices in Houston, TX and Princeton, NJ. Decent benefits. Great annual bonus. Still have co-pay plan as well as high deductible plan for health insurance but only one choice of provider in each region. Most employees are friendly and work hard. Company has a nice incentive/rewards program to encourage healthy living but it is going to be eliminated next year.

Cons

Must work in Princeton to be noticed and promoted outside of the retail business based in Houston. No 9/80s; no employee stock purchase plan-eliminated in 2017; only 4% 401k matching-eliminated annual contribution based on salary; layoffs for last two years. Workforce is younger and less highly paid. Culture is very protective of knowledge and position, probably due to fear of layoffs that have been ongoing for the last 3 years. Established employees don't help new employees unless required. Layoffs were handled badly although packages were fairly generous. Can't compare with working at Chevron, Shell, etc. Open office environment of long desks in Princeton but Houston is now better and everyone has a cube.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

Opportunity to gain power markets experience. Many different departments, exposure to many different parts of the industry. Acceptable benefits and bonus compensation.

Cons

Expected to perform tasks, upskill in AI programming, or anything to further the interests of the group, outside of stated job responsibilities. Shifted from a 2-day in office work week to 4-day in office work week, with inconsistent expectations from all levels of management. Lackluster resources for data science, in comparison to industry peers. Mostly subscription-based resources, not many on-prem resources built correctly. Company's basic infrastructure for finance & accounting used for data science work. Bad network connectivity. Website or services crucial to projects, such as PJM Data Miner 2 are sometimes blocked or non-functional. Non-technical leaders oversee software projects with inflexible or unreasonable expectations.

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