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POWER Engineers

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Used to be great, but now going downhill - Anonymous employee POWER Engineers Employee Review

3.0
Nov 12, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Loved the friendly team atmosphere, everyone helped each other, project managers actually worked with you on a daily basis - back in the day. There is a lot of flexibility if you need it, but many people are afraid to take advantage of it now in case they seem to be taking advantage, in general.

Cons

Team atmosphere has gone from great to non-existent. No communication between offices, between managers and staff, between departments. Not sure what PMs do anymore except point fingers when things go wrong (usually because they are no longer around/don't bother managing their own projects, but leave that to others who already have their own work). PMs no longer work with the team and are usually MIA without responding to email for days at a time (and longer). They expect people to do "out of scope" work to make clients happy, but don't bother to budget for it, feigning ignorance when their project goes over budget, which is when the finger-pointing begins. But since the Good Ol' Boys can do no wrong, the people on the team take the blame. There is literally no guidance or standards on how to become promoted from one level to the next; they tend to refrain from promoting specifically so labor costs look competitive on proposals. Morale is rock-bottom in some offices, but there is no real concern for or interest in offices outside of Idaho.

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Pros

Great place to work with good benefits

Cons

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3.0
May 31, 2026
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Pros

Was a genuinely great place to work. Great people and great culture. It was worth the slightly-lower-than-average pay because work life balance and benefits were great. I enjoyed going to work every day.

Cons

Poor financial decisions from upper management regarding the shareholder program led to the company's demise. Upper management sold out to WSP. Management made millions while long time employees got zilch. As someone else had mentioned, retention bonuses were unfairly distributed. Most people didn't get any retention bonus even if they had been long time employees of the company. It really felt like everyone who wasn't upper management got stabbed in the back. They got their payout then dumped the company. Still stings to this day.

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