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Southern California Edison

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Southern California Edison reviews

3.9

79% would recommend to a friend

(1,762 total reviews)
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Steven Powell

79% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Southern California Edison has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,762 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Southern California Edison 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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2K reviews
2.0
Dec 27, 2014

All talk, all bull

Recommend
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Pros

Pay is competitive, benefits are good, work pace is very lax. If you are a handsome white guy or girl with the gift of gab, you will go far.

Cons

Nepotism and favoritism is so rampant, it's utterly discouraging. Hiring, firing, reward and punishment is who you know (and who you...you know the rest). There are so many examples I could cite, it would fill a few pages. Many years ago, an employee went on a shooting rampage and the company hired a 3rd party firm to randomly sample employees within that organization to "tell the truth". The study was released company wide and the results mirror my first sentence. A majority of the problem management were eliminated, but some managers who should've been cut are still in management positions today (some even higher). The company also has decimated the IT organization as of Dec 2014. Another 3rd round of layoffs expected. The core organization known as Transmission and Distribution will also be subject to cuts in the next two years. The company's mishandling of the SONGS nuclear power generation unit as well as its well documented mishandling of the wind storm several years ago paved the way for these recent layoffs. Meanwhile, executive compensation continues to rise as does the way the manager's bonus incentive plan is calculated.

1.0
Nov 6, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent benefits, learning opportunities, and programs designed to enhance your life both at and away from work. Almost all of the people who work there are great, it is very "band of brothers" whereby most (not all) employees feel as though they are all enlisted together and watch each others backs.

Cons

University of Phoenix Masters Degrees, people who have achieved rank with their "degree" even though they would never have stood a chance at completing a real graduate school let alone be accepted to one. Therefore their attempting to run a business shows their inadequate abilities since moral is extremely low. To make employees happy they invent new pseudo job opportunities further insulting the intelligence for those of us whom obtained a real education by actually having to take SAT tests, apply, etc. In other words management is unprepared, unqualified, and over paid doing next to nothing in terms of day to day work. In fact the call center has more managers than departments, not one person knows what any one of them does except attend 6-10 meetings a day. Internal politics and ethics violations are out of control since this is a "good ole boy" establishment, managers too have each others backs creating a situation where there is a clear division between the actual working employees and management who do nearly nothing but filibuster. SCE is a great company if you are union, outside of that, it is a place where talented and skilled employees go to die because if you are better than a manager, you are being super glued to your desk.

2.0
Aug 21, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The company had a long history of being the "Edison Family". For years it was a great place to work, with good pay, good benefits, and job security. Unfortunately, that has all changed in the past few years.

Cons

The Edison company has become a much less enjoyable place to work. I still keep in touch with many former colleagues who often complain about how bad it's gotten and how they really don't enjoy their jobs there anymore. Many are actively looking elsewhere for another position but keeping the Edison job to pay the bills.

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