Southern California Edison reviews

Buzzwords and executive worship count more than skills and intelligence. People aren't empowered to make decisions. Too risk averse. Every detail needs to be run up through multiple levels of management approval. People with no expertise often have the final say so leading to inferior results. Or if not, then it's decision by a committee of know-nothings. Too many meetings. Meetings about meetings. Employees don't feel valued and morale after multiple yearly layoff cycles is understandably low.

Company recently hired a union busting lawyer to represent them in the last round of IBEW contract negotiations. Company laid off large groups of IT workers and forced them to train their foreign replacements in order to receive their severance packages. The company is phasing out pensions, lowering benefits packages, and under-staffing their hydro power plants in the name of "Operational Excellence".