Pros

What can I say? For a company that went bankrupt a couple of times due to negligence and incompetence, the rate-payers are paying for it to keep it alive today. It is a stable company, but it is not a company that you can give praise for its culture, management style, and morale. If you are looking for a place to build your career based on performance, this is not the place for you. Here, it is who you know, not what you know. I know for a fact that they at the Energy Efficiency Division will even give you a project manager position regardless that your first and last job was being a spoiled brat, who leeches off his parents, with no educational background or managerial experience to be an analyst, contract manager, and also a project manager in the first place.

Cons

Energy Efficiency Division is a mess of new, incompetent managers who will hire based on anyone they like, not based on his/her skill and/or experience level. It is getting more common, as you stay longer and notice what is going on. It is not right for the company to hire people you had intimate relationships with or friends to work in the same department. It is a conflict of interest, deciding that one person over others who are much more qualified and experience to fit the job.

Advice to Senior Management

YES, it is your fault to hire unqualified, incompetent, people. You have reviewed their resume. HR declined their candidacy, but you still request to have that person interviewed. What is your excuse this time for not thinking what is best for the company, the stakeholders, the public? I want you reprimanded for this to appease the other fellow employees who are involved in such a depressing working environment with low morale that you have brought into this company. You are unfit to move this department or company forward.