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POWER Engineers

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Wouldn't recommend. - Engineer III POWER Engineers Employee Review

2.0
Jul 23, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible. Great project exposure. Decent benefits. Engineers (non-salaried) get paid straight-time for anything over 40 hours a week. Company serves beer on Friday afternoons.

Cons

Very low relative pay (bottom 10 percentile of engineering field). Constantly pressured to take on more work and to work overtime. The culture is that of high pressure and high stress being normal. The managerial focus is on profit (constantly reminded of projected profits and how well you are matching your personal billability goals) and not employee job satisfaction. Production Engineers are given a 90% Billability Goal, but Personal Leave and Sick Leave count against your Billability, so if you take your given Leave, you automatically fail to meet the 90% goal and no amount of overtime can make up for the loss.

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5.0
May 20, 2026
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Pros

Great place to work with good benefits

Cons

Sold to a larger company with worse benefits

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3.0
May 31, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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