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Great Place for a New Engineer to Start - Electrical Substation Engineer POWER Engineers Employee Review

4.0
Apr 3, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

POWER is a small company (~2000 people) and this translates into a comfortable work environment. Shorts and sandals are acceptable in the Houston office, hours are flexible, and there is a beer fridge in the kitchen. Health benefits are exceptional ($1000 Family Deductible) and include vision and dental. POWER as a company will do everything possible to keep you happy and productive. As a fresh grad you will get lots of experience in many different area's, most of which where not covered in school, and there is an infinite amount of room to grow.

Cons

Pay: Expect to be paid the going rate for a new grad engineer working in the design field. You can earn a few more dollars/hr doing the same job with someone else but POWER as a company makes up for the low cash compensation with the awesome health benefits, 401k matching, and 3 weeks of PTO in the first year. If you want to make more than 60k right out of school then find something besides design firms. Management: Management will not address the leadership issues within teams. The team lead is running off talent left and right, not because he is a bad engineer but because he is a poor leader. Protesting the micro-managing, the misguidance, and the being thrown under the bus is futile because the inner circle watches out for one another. The good engineers leave for other jobs while the mediocre engineers hang around and get promoted. For the few decent engineers (or drafters) who decide to stick with POWER but are not part of the "in crowd", they are paid less than new hires. Management is salaried PLUS year-end bonus, their end game is to squeeze everyone to boost that bottom line but contribute nothing productive to the team.

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5.0
May 20, 2026
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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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