AusNet Reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(156 total reviews)

30% positive business outlook

AusNet has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 156 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AusNet employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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156 reviews
1.0
1 Mar 2022

AusNet doesnt use industry best practice in personnel management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The environment is "inclusive", good opportunities for growth

Cons

The way recruitment is conducted is far from best practice. Competency frameworks arent being well used, best practice interviewing methods not used. In a struggle to meet WGEA requirements, organisation is doing some less than savoury things in recruitment such as applying targets in recruitment shortlisting, including uncompetitive individuals in interviews/assessment centres. Management also unable to justify how promotions are based on performance, yet have gender quota, and do not have adequate competency frameworks and measurement in place. Unconscious bias "consultants" are hired to give workshops that are basically an opportunity for them to share personal agendas for their views on 'gender bias'

1.0
13 Sept 2023
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Pros

Trend of transition to new energies and the exposure of this impact it has to the Utilities industry may be valuable. Heavy focus on bringing in external consultants makes for good opportunities as a Consultant to work here on a short term basis.

Cons

Constant focus on transformations to reduce business cost. This is resulting in redundancies and driving an unstable team culture and poor working environment. Change Management from transformation programs is poorly implemented. Largely shareholder focused and employees aren't a stakeholder considered of value and often treated as dispensable. Culture trends towards toxic as employees are focused on avoiding being made redundant. Company surveys typically end up being used by managers to identify unhappy team members. Cost savings focus sees departments and employees fighting each other over getting credit. Role clarity among departments is always a point of conflict and collaboration is minimal between departments. Minorities and new migrants generally aren't viewed as management worthy. Personally the first and last days of my employment were the best days at this organisation. I'm pleased to have moved on.

3.0
31 Aug 2017

Operational Technology

Anonymous employee
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Pros

CBD location, plenty of options for getting out at lunch. Building facilities; gym, change rooms, (need to pay yourself), bike parking.

Cons

Used to be a great place to work. Management is very top heavy, most of the useful people who did the work are gone (outsourced). ELT managers seem like politicians and out of touch with reality. Despite cost cutting, there is still lots of dead wood remaining and a largely incompetent outsourced model . Very limited career advancement in the OT space. If you are an average Joe, annual incentives are becoming harder to achieve and most of the measures are totally out of your control plus "Calibration" is applied to whatever you do achieve just to take the icing your cake.

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