Energy Transfer Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Energy Transfer full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Reasonable Compensation is the one pro

Cons – Just about every other aspect of the company/emploee relationship is a Con

Advice to Senior Management – You are a big company now, with big company liabilities. Act like it. Reward your employees based on merit and KSAs, and not how far their nose is up their bosses backside.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Energy Transfer full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The company is a dynamic and high growth firm who has been both good and lucky in their growth. With their last two acquisitions, they are one of the largest two players in their industry

Cons – This growth comes on the backs of the rank and file employees. The company has grown so fast that processes and 'procedures' are often made up as they go. They are proud of the fact that they were a company of less than 500 employees five years ago, but with over 15k today, they need to develop programs to remain fair and consistent on a day to day basis.

Advice to Senior Management – Back up and look at your the HR and other programs of the companies you acquired. While they may cast you a couple mils on the bottom line, your +10% turnover rate will fall as employees start to trust that you will be fair across off companies and employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Energy Transfer full-time for more than a year

Pros – Okay job. Good training. Friendy workers to work with.

Cons – Lack of staff. Long Hours. No advancement.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Energy Transfer as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Travel and team members are good.

Cons – Management. The IT management has no real management style, other than Do as I say, not as I do. The procedures are ALL specific to single incidents. No global procedures. And they are terrible micro managers. If you dont like micro management, then DO NOT work in the IT dept at ETC.

Advice to Senior Management – Put some faith in your employees. In the Houston office, there are several good employees, but the manager there practices micro management, and they have to do everything with his review and permission.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Energy Transfer

Pros – There's a lack of IT knowledge within the department at the senior most levels. This provides an opportunity to shine by helping with best practices and moving the department forward. The employees doing the work are friendly and competent.

Cons – When providing those best practices, you rarely receive recognition. Nepotism runs rampant, and the CIO favors loyalty over competence every time, to the tune of promoting inexperienced people beyond their means. Cheap hardware with lack of redundancy to save a few bucks means consistent outages. Hacks put in place by Sr. Dir of IT create a snowball effect that makes simple tasks difficult to accomplish. The IT mentality of Sr. Mgt. is give users just barely enough to get their jobs done, and force business decisions on them.

Energy Transfer spends about 20% of what it should be spending on IT as compared to other Fortune 500 companies and it shows.

Advice to Senior Management – Embrace best practices, promote based on merit rather than the buddy system. Reduce ROI caused by manual processes throughout the IT department.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Energy Transfer

Pros – Company is very flexible with schedules and are good when you need to leave for personal matters. Culture is decent although a lot of good ole boy netoworking.

Cons – - No praise or recognition for job well done.
- Pay is on lower 25%.
- Development management is incompetent. Not stretching the truth.

Advice to Senior Management – Definitely more involvment with the little people. Your employees make you look good, so treat them as such. The best employees should always be appreciated and compensated as such. You should keep current on your technologies so that you know what to expect out of your workers and so you can have SOME oversight when some aren't doing so well.