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      NRG Energy

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      NRG Energy reviews

      3.8

      70% would recommend to a friend

      (966 total reviews)
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      Rob Gaudette

      100% approve of CEO

      69% positive business outlook

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      NRG Energy has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 966 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The NRG Energy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.8 stars).

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      966 reviews
      1.0
      Jun 29, 2016

      Good benefits but suffers from bad management

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Great benefits Good taking caring of the employees Generous about expenses while an employee makes a business travel Good salary

      Cons

      This company suffers from bad management. Working at this company would not add to your skills at all. There is no training and you are all on your own. I would not recommend joining this company if you are looking for adding to your skills

      2.0
      Jun 11, 2016

      Will be a boring IPP again

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Compensation and benefits are fair overall considering it's in the greater NY area and some employees commute from the city. There is free lunch offered. Various departments work pretty much in silos. Not really an exciting place to work. Most are 9-5 employees and hardly motivated. Won't be surprised if the company becomes a takeover target again just like the one five years ago. That's what usually happens when you sit on boring assets collecting capacity revenues. The renewable group will be a sidebar from now on and home solar business will soon be a past for NRG. As for the new era of distributed generation that David Crane envisioned, it will be nowhere to be found a year from now.

      Cons

      NRG has recently moved to the new HQ building in Princeton. The building was the idea of David Crane, the former CEO who was ousted six months ago, a pure act of short term shareholder childishness. Ironically the building design that includes many renewable features now runs contrary to what the new CEO (an insider and operational guy) champions in coal, gas, and nuclear. Crane at least had a vision of transforming a traditional IPP to the new energy future but unfortunately became a victim of tanking stock price. He was let go when crude and power prices were at the lowest. Can the new CEO do any worse from here? Not sure if the new CEO has any idea about the company's direction for the long term.

      2.0
      Oct 15, 2014

      Stressful

      Buyer
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      Pros

      Benifits and a perm. job

      Cons

      Not enough people to do the job. Long hours. Not paid OT. Low pay and low raisies.

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