Plug Power Rochester reviews

3.3

89% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)
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Andy Marsh

14% approve of CEO

16% positive business outlook

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13 reviews
1.0
Aug 24, 2024

Circus of a company

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Pros

Easy jobs nothing difficult... Warm body employment

Cons

Totally mismanaged. Hasn't made a profit in almost 30 years. Always changing shift schedules. Lots of down time because no one has a clue of what is going on as things constantly fail test or the parts are defective. They constantly shuffle people around because they are always doing damage control. Lots of throwing people under the bus. No real support from management. Interview style and yearly reviews they go into with the mindset of finding every reason not to hire and not to give raises/ quarterly bonuses. Also they hire temp's saying it's temp to perm but review to become perm is a mindset of finding every reason not to make the temp a permanent employee. They just don't give a care about the employees especially if they are not on A shift. Also 401k match is with their stock that is absolutely worthless. Training is an absolute joke. HR is definitely pro employer so any issues and employee brings to HR puts that employee on the radar to be fired. Also it's word of mouth for hires and raises. There's no performance matrix based raises. So you can be a hard worker but if you don't make management notice it goes unnoticed. It's just a very highschool clique kind of environment with management. Which management will throw crew leads under the bus to cover their butt's Also they fudge the numbers in testing because they know it will fail and if it fails in the field they have maintenance contracts which is what they want money made from. So lots of reworks come back as well as remanufacturing work. They hype green Hydrogen and being end to end. Yet they can't even keep enough hydrogen at the plant to keep the hydrogen forklift and pallet jack running.

3.0
May 11, 2024
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Pros

Good reasons to work at Plug Power are the night shift is cool and this is the first time I have worked on a night shift where there is no drama, my co-workers are great and the team leads, supervisors, and managers all work super hard together to make sure tasks are getting done. We know we don't get paid the most, but we all work well as a cohesive unit to get the job done, WE ARE NOT MICROMANAGED (unless you go on the morning shift), also have a good work-life balance. Mon-Thru and then have off on Fri-Sun

Cons

Pay sucks, bonuses suck, the snacks in the cafe area are overpriced, the morning shift is an absolute no, and the management does not care about you at all. The upper management will order food, and leave the leftovers for the night shift which we never touch because...ew, and they say we are the backbone of the company but definitely don't treat us like it

1.0
Mar 5, 2024
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Pros

Decent pay for some roles. New technology, potential for growth and further expansion and product lines.

Cons

Terrible company culture. Multiple members of senior management were essentially 'bought and paid for' by one individual in Management and many came from the same company that starts with an S. The company has a referral bonus that this one manager exploited and hired multiple of his cronies into various management positions, including Human Resources. This company only values relationships and not work ethic. Nepotism and favoritism run rampant here... It wouldn't surprise me at all if quid-pro-quo goes on here...Because this is so blatant, morale is terrible among the staff and people feel overworked and underpaid. Numerous people have given up working hard and trying and have openly talked about how the company will not promote them because they are not management's favorites. -so why should they try if they won't get promoted?... Management has openly talked about who they like and don't like in front of employees like we're still in a High School setting, and many members are extremely unprofessional. There is also a lot of bullying that goes on here that is sponsored by management that HR does little to nothing about. There's a lot of racism and discrimination at various levels that go on here. The majority of my team and multiple other people within the building openly talk about how they're looking for better opportunities, quote: "where they don't feel like paid slaves". The work-life balance here is horrible. I've witnessed many things that I never thought would happen at a workplace, including people working in altered states of mind and operating heavy equipment and machinery. This has honestly been the worst experience I've had in my career and cannot wait for my opportunity to get out of here, aside from quitting and unfortunately, it's getting closer and closer to that reality. I wouldn't recommend this place to my worst enemy. Thank god for them getting help from the government with bailouts because they continuously find ways to run this business straight into the ground.

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