Aera Energy Reviews

Pros

Great benefits. Family oriented company that encourages sons, daughters, wives to apply. Promotes good health from the top down and fully embraces safety culture.

Cons

Huge age gap in technical staff. Offices are only in California so there will not be any movement out of California.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to cross train young professionals by sending them to other fields outside of California to gain industry experience. Keep doing what you're doing.

Pros

Good Salary and 4 weeks of vacation

Cons

Politically motivated, and does not really care about employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop promoting political backstabbers and realize all different types of employees are needed to effectively run a good organization.

Pros

Great Benefits, Flexible with Schedule, Great Pay, Good working environment

Cons

Minimal growth opportunities throughout the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Look for ways to grow the company. Growth would lead to more opportunities and growth for all.

Pros

Processes can be good for learning and avoiding 'repeat' mistakes

Cons

Being too process oriented suffocates innovation and can lead to inability for attaining long-term viability

Advice to Senior Management

Process should NOT come before Function - process should SUPPORT function. A process that is built without accounting for function FIRST is doomed to failure as no process is perfect. All processes (if desiring long term viability) MUST be an animal that is capable of EVOLVING. The only way a process can actually evolve is by acknowlegement that it is supported FIRST by function/design.

Pros

Competitive compensation package, good benefits, flexible schedule, 9/80 work weeks, lots of internal training opportunities, very process driven company,

Cons

Very little opportunity for new engineers to be mentored, operations management was clueless on day to day activity, intergrated teams did not work together well but rather seemed to have an every man for himself mentality.

Advice to Senior Management

Aera Energy has the potential to be a great company to work for if the right leadership is in place. The Bakersfield office has a completely different feel than the field offices, and this is unfortunate, because the Bakersfield office is a well run machine.