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      2.7

      32% would recommend to a friend

      (636 total reviews)
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      Brian X. Tierney

      13% approve of CEO

      20% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      FirstEnergy has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 636 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The FirstEnergy employee rating is 26% below average for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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      636 reviews
      2.0
      Sep 4, 2018

      Deteriorating company FES

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Still being paid at this time

      Cons

      Massive cutback in investing in power plants, low morale across nuclear, lower pay since bankruptcy, unknown if bonus structure will stay.

      5.0
      Aug 22, 2018

      Material Management

      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Challenging. Long term employement if you care to apply yourself and ignore political environment that all companies have.

      Cons

      Long hours during periods of storm restoration

      2.0
      Jul 23, 2018

      Stable, political, bad software practices

      Software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good salary. Medical insurance with high deductible + FSA is fully paid for by the company. Full 6% 401k match. Up to 90% compensation for higher education. Chance to work on interesting projects. Real projects for interns. A lot of "job security" (if that's your thing) due to complicated processes and people retiring.

      Cons

      Strong culture of following the spreadsheet and never questioning anything. Reports must be "green" at any cost. Apathetic attitude toward software quality on all levels, from management to some developers. Management lacks technical knowledge and is not willing to learn or listen to developers. Miles of red tape for the smallest of production issues and one-line fixes. In-house applications have decades' worth of technical debt that is never cleaned up (due to all of the above). Favoritism bordering on racism and misogyny. Skilled developers and experienced analysts excluded from a project altogether while management's favorites with no relevant knowledge are assigned to leadership roles on the same project. Management doublethink: - Modernize an in-house application by creating a new UI, yet do not fix a broken 20+ years old database - Make in-house developers prove their changes are not malicious, yet allow a project to use 10,000+ third-party NPM packages. - Claim to be agile, yet set deadlines and release all of the application at once

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