Pacific Gas and Electric Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Pacific Gas and Electric full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – None, terrible company that does business as a monopoly!

Cons – Company that does not value diversity!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Pacific Gas and Electric full-time for more than a year

Pros – Static environment, degree of stability.

Cons – Couldn't recommend this company to anyone, particularly not fellow alumnus.

Advice to Senior Management – Break the company up into smaller units

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Pacific Gas and Electric full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Benefits...which most companies offer - health, dental,401k plan etc. There is a possibility of being ok if you manage to get in a "decent department" under decent management.

Cons – -Good old boys club in management - been at PG&E for years, but are not skilled or competant
-HR sides with management, so they can do whatever they want to you - harass, bully, unfair -evaluations, illegitimate demotions, discrimination, held hostage in your job when you want to transfer
Penalties for management when they do all the above are "getting a coach" or watching a video
-Excessive Top layers while cutting layers at the bottom, the ones at the bottom do all the work!. Thus most employees are overworked because they are doing not one, but two or three jobs.
-A whole bunch of re-orgs for no reason, Old school atmosphere, less advanced programs
*Older employees have voiced there suffering in this environment but hold on to hope to "start living" when they retire.

Advice to Senior Management – Legal intervention will cost the company greatly, so try to remain in compliance with company's policies and laws.

Current Employee – been working at Pacific Gas and Electric full-time for more than a year

Pros – None.
The employee benefits are not even that good, stop lying to yourself. Please go work in another utility and see for yourself.

Cons – 1. No equality in pay across different lines of business
2. No equality in promotional opportunities
3. Poor communication amongst all levels
4. Bureaucracy makes it impossible to get things done
5. Please stop with the "do more with less non-sense". The company is not efficient enough to do more with less. How about fire some of those useless directors, then we can actually have money to hire people that can actually do the work!
6. The directors and above do not know what they are doing, please evaluate their competency and value to the company

Advice to Senior Management – The recent changes are not enough. The company needs to look at how, where, and when, the money is spent. If any senior executive is looking at this, please reduce the layers, why do we have VP, Sr. Dir, Dir, Sr. Mgr, Mgr, and Sup? Why is some line of business with more layer than others? What is the value of those directors that do not do anything but sit around? The best way to see who is adding value is to talk to the employees and ask them. If you ask genuinely, they will tell you.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Pacific Gas and Electric

Pros – None. Government-like job at best.

Cons – You can probably get away with sleeping under your desk and still collect your paycheck. Great place to work if you want absolute zero job satisfaction or fulfillment. It is shocking how much employees here make compared to the private industry.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Pacific Gas and Electric full-time

Pros – They pay you extremely well.

Cons – You have to compromise your values if you want to stay working for them.

Advice to Senior Management – Change the values and the culture and bring in all new management.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Pacific Gas and Electric full-time for more than a year

Pros – There are several select places in the company where management and employees are sharp and motivated to deliver results. Strong sense of doing what's right by the employees, many of whom are very environmentally-motivated and passionate.

Cons – Middle management presents a significant barrier to changing corporate culture. Current corporate culture and organizational structure that makes it a challenge to deliver results and recognize employees that do good work.

Advice to Senior Management – Re-evaluate middle management layer and reward fast learners motivated to make positive change

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Pacific Gas and Electric full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Benefits, salary, training if your supervisor allows it

Cons – A company that promotes Hitlerian Anti-Semitism, where Jews are systematically discriminated, humiliated, and scape-goated.

Advice to Senior Management – Follow through on your stated values!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Pacific Gas and Electric full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great benefits and salary, great location to live

Cons – We are a command & control, compliance culture.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop acting as if your primary motiviation is to stay out of trouble. We won't become a leading utility with that mindset.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Pacific Gas and Electric full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Benefits, salary, and that is all!!!

Cons – Really too numerous to list. The most backword, dishonest, unethical, and deeply immoral company I've seen in a long time!!!

Advice to Senior Management – Fire useless, imcompetent scumbags that have no moral code. Hire competent individuals based on merit, experience, moral code and talent!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company