PowerPlan reviews

PowerPlan's management is a victim of its own indecisiveness and incompetence. They aim to enter the Oil and Gas vertical market, but make zero overtures to develop customized modules for the target demo or overhaul subject matter expertise for industry fluency. The software product platform itself had a timeline to shift from the declining Powerbuilder platform to a web offering, but that initiative was stunted by the surprise layoff of roughly half of the Development team. In recent years, hiring practices within Professional Services have shifted heavily towards recruiting new (i.e. cheap and naive) college graduates, and yet there has been no requisite evolution in product or industry education or training to prepare new hires for the day-to-day job requirements. Given these issues (not to mention the office politics and general opaque nature of management transparency), there's really no surprise here that PowerPlan is struggling to maintain a credible image in the eyes of its stakeholders.

It's consulting, I'm not going to complain much about work life balance. What I complain about is the extremely outdated, hierarchal company structure with little room for growth and improvement. Employess will be working with an outdated product (looks like its created in 1998) using an outdated language. Clients are utility companies and other extremely uninnovative industries, so this company has no incentive to improve their product or innovate. You will learn little to no skills worth having after going through this company, and it will not improve your chances of being hired anywhere else, as it is a niche and unheard of consulting company.