Liberty Power Corporation Reviews

Pros

The rapid growth of the company makes for a constantly changing work environment; you will never be bored or unchallenged. They have been able to attract a very smart group of employees, who are committed and work very hard to ensure the continued success of the company; they are the company's greatest asset.

Cons

Due to its entrepreneurial culture and current high growth phase, priorities change constantly and there is always a sense of urgency - not everyone can adapt and function well in that type of environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Walk the talk and talk the walk. Trust the skills, experience and expertise of your employees, their committment to the company and let them do what they were hired to do. You have a great company and a very exciting future, if you don't loose sight of who and what makes you great - your people.

Pros

You have the opportunity to make a difference and impact the company positively.

Cons

Work life balance is challenging

Advice to Senior Management

Find a way to promote better work life balance

Pros

1.) If you work hard, you will get more opportunity than any South Florida Fortune 500 company could possibly offer.
2.) If you stand up, defend your argument with data, and build an analytical case for action, you will win. Not only will you win, you'll get rewarded with leading the initiative and with driving results.
3.) Leaders are recognized and rewarded. How many times a year do you interact with your Board of Directors? Liberty Power offers the opportunity to sell the CEO on your ideas whenever you are ready to present them.
4.) If you want to work hard and you want to gain responsibilities quickly, this is the place for you.

Cons

1.) Cushy, satisfied worker-bees need-not-apply. Seriously. If you like the traditional, boring corporate environment, this is NOT the right place for you. Please, strongly consider this advice. If you're not on-board with growing and developing rapidly, then you should not consider Liberty Power, because your ideas will be tested and stretched on a consistent basis.
2.) Management does not want to hear why you can't be successful; rather, they want to hear what obstacles you are facing so they can be cleared. Many people are uncomfortable with this philosophy. You will be very unhappy at Liberty Power if you're not able to recommend articulate, actionable tasks.
3.) If you're not willing to sacrifice a 9-5 mentality in replace of growing professionally, you won't excel here. If you've never been described as "a little intense", this may not be the best employer for you.
4.) Growth oriented companies are different than non-growth oriented companies. Non-growth oriented workers generally have a hard time reconciling their ideals with Liberty Power ideals, so it's something to consider.

Advice to Senior Management

The employee engagement surveys are helping to build a culture that is satisfied, engaged, and forward-looking... don't underestimate the importance of this initiative. The new targeted selection process for selecting top talent for each role seems to be working. Make sure that every candidate is up for the challenge of working at the company; otherwise, the long-term employee retention rate won't be optimized.

Pros

Due to the utter lack of direction by management, you can be exposed to new and different responsibilities that could expand your skill set.

Cons

The company places absolutely no value on work life balance. You are expected to place all other priorities in your life (relationship, children) below the company. If you are a well qualified candidate thinking about joining Liberty, it would definitely be in your best interest to look elsewhere, especially if you have options.

Advice to Senior Management

The company has the word humble as part of it's core values. It would be nice if they actually meant it, instead of being absolute hypocrites.

Pros

If you like being in a frenzied madhouse all the time this is the place for you. It is growing and the business is exciting but please keep on reading.

Cons

Be careful. If you have a job think long and hard about working for this company. It is an abusive environment that pits department against department and person against person. Senior management drills down on employees to achieve the unachievable. When things go wrong which happens a lot, it becomes point the finger time to avoid being blamed. If you do not work at least 60 hours a week you will stick out like a sore thumb. Almost everyone is very unhappy and many want to quit. 12% local unemployment rates are a godsend for Liberty as there are few other options jobs wise. With that, turnover (both voluntary and involuntary) is extreme.

Advice to Senior Management

You have an exciting business. But if you want employees to share your enthusiasm you got to make the office less like a pit bull pen. This wastes so much time and effort and makes everyone miserable. Most employees want to do the right things but the job is so stressful and unrewarding that it is wears your people out.

Pros

Seems at first glance to be a great place to work. Good benefits, good pay and bonuses, good people and some fun extracurricular activities.

Cons

Until you are privy to the inner workings and the dysfunctional enrollment, customer service and billing you have no idea! The senior management changes often because they are hired for their expertise but they are not empowered. This company is growing to fast without the proper management to control the growth. The CEO needs to step back and remember how he got to this place and allow his management team to get the job done. Company wide there is not enough reward and recognition for those working hard. They profess the mantra to be Humble, Hungry and Smart. But they are far from that.

Advice to Senior Management

Empower management. Allow for an honest, open communication with staff without fear of reprisal. Fix the broken departments and get some quality of life for the general staff.

Pros

Still a young growing company. If you are patient, persistent and wise, you can probably find a lot of opportunities and find a nice nitche role for yourself.

The company is slow to recognize its faults... but at least it does recognize them; which more than I can say for every other job I've had. For example, the work hours have gotten much more sane in the past year. Sure, you may still leave at 8pm 2 or 3 times a week, but it used to be 10pm every day. So its going in the right direction.

Very kind, talented and driven people in the company. They put a lot of effort into hiring the right kind of person, and for the most part, it seems to be effective.

Cons

Hands down the worst problem is the stress the CEO puts on the VPs. He scares the hell out of them. He blows up at anyone who has anything ugly to report. His attitude is only receptive of yes-men personalities. It's very sad seeing experienced and professional VPs reduced to cowering do-boys with forced smiles on their faces. "oh yes sir, thats a great idea sir, right away sir"

Another issue is metrics. The motto is "anything that gets measured, gets improved". The truth is, "anything thats get measured, gets lied about". One of tragedies of these metrics is that the worst people tend to look the best and the best people look the worst. The ones who are really doing a quality job, will probably get less work done. I am so impressed when, time and time again, I see people try extra hard to help out a customer or fellow co-workers even though they know they will be punished for it when the numbers come out.
But the ones who just care about how they look to their manager, will crank out sloppy work and shamelessly LIE and fudge any numbers they can get away with. The humble ones have to stay quiet and watch as these shady people get all the recognition.

With the company growing so much, there are a lot of new hires. Often times this leads to unfairness either toward the newer or older employees.
If there is an older manager, they tend to be comfortable with the good-ol-boys they've known for years. The new people in this case are viewed as simply a resource to help with the grunt work and nothing more. There is little respect for the multitude of years of experience they have, if you are new a Liberty, you are simply a newbie.
However, if its the manager who is new, they tend to form a clique with other new people, especially those they were able to hand pick. The older people are viewed as a burden or maybe just someone to maintain the legacy processes while the new team can "finally do it right" and "fix" all that messed up stuff the old timers did. There is little respect for the years of experience the person already has with the company and the ideas they have to improve it.

Advice to Senior Management

Slow Down! Gaining 1000 customers a week just to lose 900 is not as good as gaining 500 and losing just 10.

The company is an awful sloppy mess because its trying to do too much too quickly. Pace yourself. You are making all the employees and customer furious. And for what! To make less profit and be able to boast about your growth

Pros

Top 10 BEST things about working at Liberty Power

1. Pay above industry average by 10% or more
2. Free health Care (although plan is just OK)
3. 401k Match and you’re vested day 1
4. Annual bonus (but will vary by person… not across the board bonus)
5. Young environment
6. Fast growing company
7. Friendly environment with most of staff
8. Corporate outings on somewhat a regular basis
9. New office environment
10. Convenient location easy to access from I95 or FLA Turnpike

Cons

Top 10 WORST things about working at Liberty Power

1. (Very) Top management is egocentric and narcissistic (just ask anyone you should meet)
2. Long hours, if you don’t work 55+ hours on a regular basis (week-in, week-out) don’t expect any of the Good Stuff stated above
3. There is no review cycle in place. You may start off with excellent pay, but you can go years without a financial review
4. Make a mistake, even a minor one and you are berated, usually in front of others… no respect for individual dignity. At times at a level where it is embarrassing to all… not just the person taking the beating.
5. Micro Management is at an extreme level. Don’t expect any of your ideas to fly. Just do what you’re told. You every movement must be tracked in an electronic system. You must account for every minute of every day (did I state Micro-Management)
6. Priorities change at the whim of top management on a regular basis.
7. Extreme high turnover at VP level. Except for a few insiders, average “life span” is more than likely less than 18 months. Just look at their WEB site. New VPs are always being named. What they don’t state is that these are the “replacement” players
8. Don’t trust anyone, lots of family members work there and many “spies”. What you might think is being said in private may not necessarily be so.
9. Margins are decreasing as competition increases…. Environment may get even tougher
10. In this relative new environment of deregulation, it’s eat or be eaten. This could be a prime takeover target. You don’t want to be one of the last ones hired.

Advice to Senior Management

One bad apple spoils the bunch. It really could be a great place to work. Most of the "Worst" described above is based on one person. Maybe one day he will take his money and retire, although I doubt that.

Pros

Compensation is above average. Ranks (staff) below Senior Management are good people. Company growing and should not be impacted by current economic trends

Cons

Work/Life balance forgetaboutit! Comments of COO, “You sleep at home a least 8 hours a day.... so work life balance will always be slanted towards time at home”. All employees (including VP's) must use software to track their time minute by minute. Nano-Management (100 x Micro Management) by CEO to all, including most senior level VPs. If pay is the only thing that concerns you, Liberty Power is right up your alley. But if you think you have experience and can contribute to the corporation, you will be squashed every time

Advice to Senior Management

9 out of 12 VPs left in last year.... what else can be said. If you try to stand up for your right, I guess you would be the next to go.