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POWER Engineers

Is this your company?

Probably a great company, but they laid me off before I could find out. - Engineer II POWER Engineers Employee Review

2.0
5 Nov 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Seems to be a good corporate culture in general with lots of travel and movement possible. Definitely in the black financially.

Cons

Unfortunately, they're in the habit of making promises they can't (or simply won't) keep. My previous company was bought out by Power, who let most people in the office keep their jobs, besides some in management who were billing a majority of overhead for timesheet management, etc. We were told the plan was to expand our office in the coming years to be several dozen to a hundred people. We were finishing engineering contracts for the local utility and preparing to get more signed the following week ( which would have led to about a years' worth of work), when HR representatives came and told us that the company had identified several main areas to focus on, moving forward, and that we did not happen to be one of them. They gave us about 3 weeks to finish the project, but took away our interns (who we needed, as they were signing off on several documents) the week after they told us we were being let go. All in all, not a great way to deal with people you hired less than 3 months previously.

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5.0
20 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great place to work with good benefits

Cons

Sold to a larger company with worse benefits

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3.0
31 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Was a genuinely great place to work. Great people and great culture. It was worth the slightly-lower-than-average pay because work life balance and benefits were great. I enjoyed going to work every day.

Cons

Poor financial decisions from upper management regarding the shareholder program led to the company's demise. Upper management sold out to WSP. Management made millions while long time employees got zilch. As someone else had mentioned, retention bonuses were unfairly distributed. Most people didn't get any retention bonus even if they had been long time employees of the company. It really felt like everyone who wasn't upper management got stabbed in the back. They got their payout then dumped the company. Still stings to this day.

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