FirstEnergy Reviews

Pros

Good advancement opportunities, work/life balance

Cons

Promotions given sporadically, a lot of rotations

Pros

good pay in the nuclear part of business
descent benefits
lots of people retiring, therefore should be jobs opening up

Cons

workers negative about everything
recognition program is not consistent
middle management not trained in supervisory skills
employees allowed to "goof off", causing good employees to be unmotivated
turnovers from old employee to new employee is nonexistant
work does not flow
groups do not work well together

Advice to Senior Management

Train your middle management (first-line supervision) to lead by example and use leadership skills to lead their groups. First-line supervision and managers need to work as a unit and not contradict one another. Need to beef up IT dept and get all the work documents and work flow under one system that is easy to understand. Train your employees on basic computer skills.

Pros

Flexible.
Large enterprise experience.
Large data center environments.

Cons

Management seems to feel employees should be thankful to have jobs. They should create more incentives for employees to stay with the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Appreciate your employees. It is difficult to find good ones.

Pros

Employees...they are the best part of working at FirstEnergy. The people you work with make the job. They have many talented, hard working people there but Management simply takes advantage of them and continually ask for more.

Cons

The expectation of management, at least within IT, can be quite high. If you are good at something they continually ask more of you and are unwilling to work with you to cross-train others so you can advance within the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees. They are the most valuable asset to the company and everything, within reason, should be done in an attempt to keep them there.

Pros

Compensation is fair compared to the regon. The office is professional. It is nice to work in an office filled with good people.

Cons

FirstEnergy can require a lot of overtime. Overtime can require a lot of weekend face time. FirstEnergy does not always acknowledge the extra effort.

Pros

Starting Compensation is fair, but overall you are not compensated fairly.

Cons

management does not care about you.

Advice to Senior Management

Remove older employees and start caring around younger people. Money will not buy you all-stars.

Pros

Good work environment, decent pay. The group I worked in was great. For the most part, not too much trouble in day to day work.

Cons

Upper management not truthful about the state of the company. They relocate you, make you sign a contract to stay then lay you off before the contract ends. HR cannot be trusted. They will lie and tell you that they will pay to tie up your loose ends when you get laid off and renege at the last minute. I would not trust this company one bit. If you are very sick and have to go on medical, the company nurse will hound you and your doctor until you come back. It doesn't matter if you are getting paid or not. FMLA means nothing. Working storm can be a problem. You are expected to work 16 hours shifts with only 8 hours off. If you live further away, expect that to cut into your rest time. Also the company will send people off for public safety alone. Not a good thing because if something happens to you no one will know until you don't show up for work.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't waste money relocating people when you know that you may lay off workers. It's a waste of the employees time as well as yours. Get rid of the HR people, they are very dishonest.

Pros

People are nice over here.

Cons

Lots of work to do.

Pros

Coworkers are nice and helpful.

Cons

The management and supervisors do not have technical understanding of engineering. The obsolete plant which will be shut down in near future. The plant has been runing by itself. The management does not understand the value of real works.

Advice to Senior Management

No advice is the best advice

Pros

It has a competitive pay scale and good benefits. No overseas travel is required. Many good people work for this company.

Cons

It is a very political environment with obvious favoritism. Doing a good job does not necessarily equate to a raise or promotion.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should focus more on development and training of employees and managers. It seems there are many managers who do not know how to lead.