Exelon Generation Reviews

Pros

Great benefits, satisfying salary, job security. This is a job that simply requires you to be on time, fit for duty, and pay attention. Not a lot is asked from us Security personel and were compensated very well. If you do your duty right, have a questioning attitude, and/or ask questions regarding the work your about to perform, then your in the right spot.

Excellent job for those who are continuing education, since you have plenty of time to work on it.

Cons

(Possible Cons): Constant oversight by management. Can be boring at times. May sometimes get the feeling that you could do more with personal talent.

Pros

Pay, benefits, Retirement package, Legacy involvement

Cons

Good Ol Boys Club
Poor internal resources

Advice to Senior Management

Help new hires fit into the culture.

Pros

Great Pay.
Great benefits.
Flexible work schedule for work life balance.
Excellent people who are top of their prospective fields.

Cons

Not much career growth unless you have a bachelors degree.
Senior leadership needs to update its thinking to expand the business.
In desperate need of regime change in senior management needed to grow business.

Advice to Senior Management

If a loyal employee works for you for an extended period of time and then leaves and is told by your HR rep that he or she will still receive a yearly bonus that is prorated upon there leaving time, you should still pay the person even if the HR person miss spoke and you were to receive nothing for leaving a month too early.

Pros

Great peers. Non-judgmental, supportive, encouraging, generally cooperative. That's unusual based on past experience at nuke plants. Good place to work, good pay.

Cons

Nuclear culture stifles enthusiasm, but that's the same anywhere in the industry. Senior management stingy with praise and encouragement. That can wear on you, but then, the paycheck does help take the edge off.

Advice to Senior Management

How about the corporate folks get out of the ivory tower and find out what it's like in the trenches? For real, not just "a 3 hour tour". Some of you came from there, but how soon we forget!

Pros

Great career opportunities. Great pay, however very little balance between work and life. The number of employees at a plant is usually 50% of competitor's plants. The company is ranked #1 in its industry.

Cons

Employee feedback is not valued to a great extent. Very little balance between work and life. You are expected to answer your phone even in the middle of the night. Number of employees at plants is stripped to a bare minimum.

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce the number of top executives and increase the number of individual contributors. Learn to value employee feedback. Utilize revenues to fix long standing equipment problems. Value positive feedback as opposed to simply relying on negative feedback.

Pros

Great benefits, great corporate image.

Cons

At the site level, way too much hierarchy. Many of these people are ex-Navy and the need for hierarchy shows. Overall, tough to grow as an individual at the site-level in engineering. Growth really occurs in operations and if you have the right people advocating for you.

Advice to Senior Management

Much more attention needs to be given to developing the younger, newer employees. There are "processes" to do this, but for a Fortune 500 company, it's surprising how quickly they make you a cog in the wheel.

Pros

Good pay, benefits, rewarding work. If you take the time to learn from every opportunity that presents itself, you will become all the more marketable for future career opportuniities outside the company. A veey respected compant in the Chicago area

Cons

Senior leadership rarely, if ever, acknowleges work done well. Even when you perform an initiative exceptionally well, someone will always be available to point out how it could have been a bit better if ...

They don't realize the power of postive feedback.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees, provide positive feedback often (when warranted)

Pros

- Base pay and bonus are satisfactory
- Experience of working at a Nuclear Facility
- My peers are great

Cons

- Long hours, no overtime
- Always on call
- Micro managed
- Management expectations
- Engineering moral is low

Advice to Senior Management

Either hire more people to carry the weight, or prioritize the work load better.

Pros

1. Great benefits package (healthcare and 401k benefits were better than anything I have seen since)
2. Large organization with lots of opportunities for advancement or lateral moves either within the site or between sites.

Cons

1. Significant on-call duties as an engineer - get used to having a pager!
2. Salary progression was slow but fair. Consistent with raises and bonuses.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer more acknowledgment of sacrifices your employees make for the company. The hours can be strenuous but we could easily be working somewhere else for more money and more normal hours.

Pros

great pay and compensation package

Cons

work management is poor, too many meetings and no decisions

Advice to Senior Management

too many managers