Pros
Their focus and mission is in energy efficiency. Their main Portland office is beautiful and a great LEED certified building right downtown Portland. Majority of the employees are from PECI and Fluid (both acquired by CLEAResult) and for the most part are awesome, intelligent people that have very similar ethos as each other.
Cons
Through acquisition, CR must have 3500 employees now and is in a fast moving, growing and expanding energy efficiency business. But, their pay is poor; much like a non-profit would pay their employees except they are NOT a non-profit. Think the benefits make up for low pay? Nope. However, they load the work up on you and don't pay a dime more for it. I was "promoted" once and got a 3% raise (that includes cost of living as they don't give COL raises while the "average" yearly raise was 2.3%---gee wow, thanks...) while increasing my hours worked to about 15-20 per month. Then I got additional "responsibilities" handed to me which increased my workload and scope, adding an additional 15-20 hours per month without any extra pay. So I went from 40 hours per week up to 50+ hours per week, much more responsibility, increased stress for basically $3,000 dollars per year. After working those hours for months and expecting a raise or promotion, they again expected me to take on more workload. It's not the managers or directors faults, they're hands are strapped by greedy corporate executives. Enough is enough. I see too many really good, hard working people get the shaft and a bunch of lazy knuckleheads just skate by here. There is no reward for hard or good work and there has been a mass exodus of employees since CLEAResult acquired PECI in 2014. In fact, if you interview, ask blunty, "I've heard you have exceptionally high turnover, why is that or what are you doing about it?" Their leadership is in Austin, TX and is clueless on the Portland culture and to be honest, their HR staff is just poor at corporate and they cleaned house on all the ones left in Portland. I have never seen a more incompetent group of HR professionals (I shouldn't even use that word, CLEARLY not professional) that care as little as possible about the employees. BEWARE all... HR at CLEAResult is looking out for themselves and the company. They are not looking out for the employee and not only are conniving and backstabbing, but they create a culture of fear with limited to no enjoyment. It's like they all worked at the DMV or a call center with gray carpet and white walls...blah! I feel bad for anyone left at this company. Great people still there (I think!) and I really feel bad for the recruiters that have to sucker in replacements for all the open positions. A friend called me about 6 months ago and said "I know you worked at CLEAResult, can you put a good word in for me there?" And I told him, "I'll do one better! I'll tell them you're a murderer who stashed his grandparents body's up in the attic and is a kleptomanic so they won't hire you (well, they're desperate, maybe they would) and save you the grief of being miserable." In a culture of creative, environmentally focused, mission driven employees, this is one of the least fun or spontaneous companies I have ever worked at or even seen. My friends have kegerators at their offices and CLEAResult created a "no alcohol" on premise policy after I had left; like everyone is a child and in high school. What a joke! I laughed so hard when I heard this! This company has their eyes on the future, their feet in the past, and their head in their derrière.
