New York ISO Reviews

Pros

Great pay and benefits. A lot of good people.

Cons

Too much concern about political environment. Focus changes with the wind at times.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on a strategy and don't worry about who doesn't like it.

Pros

Great benefits, decent cafeteria,good entertainment, nice looking building

Cons

Very limited growth for techies
Too many layers of management. More managers than people who really do work
On call employees did not get extra benefits.

Advice to Senior Management

Create a Technical career Path
Reduce management layers.

Pros

Good pay, steady job, stable company

Cons

Not much growth, no ground breaking work,

Pros

healthy paychecks, generous benefits, modern clean building, free parking, bored only if you want to be, better than civil service

Cons

High stress environment. Company goals set by the board of directors at the beginning of the year drive all business decisions during the year. Culture encourages managing up.

Advice to Senior Management

Cultivate leadership in the management ranks. The board of directors should let management manage the company. Executives should spend some time with the rank and file.

Pros

Few places to work in the capital region

Cons

Weak leadership that focuses on favoritism

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on the work

Pros

working environment is great and it is an engineering company.

Cons

there is not too much downside in nyiso, except the location of the company

Advice to Senior Management

no

Pros

It has kept focused on reliability of electric supply.
It provides a decent benefits package after 10 years of service, but sadly, they recently ended the pension plan.

Cons

It is a political bureaucracy.
Management is not trained or professional.
Senior management is out of touch with most daily activities.
The BOD has incompetent, inactive, and politically motivated members.

Advice to Senior Management

Initiate mandatory monthly department staff meetings for VPs and demand open dialog from managers and supervisors at those meetings with all staff in attendance, then elicit secure and confidential feedback from staff about that dialog.
Understand staff are knowledge workers; those who have the knowledge or demonstrate operational competence are high value and should be rewarded as such - and those who do not also do not deserve to become managers and supervisors.
Management meetings are largely wasted time and effort that could be better spent by stakeholders identifying problems and resolutions instead of inventing superfluous tasks for staff.
Don't get too stringent about dress codes and work spaces -- people sometimes perform better when they feel better.

Pros

NYISO is a growing company, which allows many opportunities to advance. Also offers many great benefits including Educational reimbursement, and a wellness program. Company does appear to be continually growing, and is building a solid reputation in the energy sector in the leader in energy markets.

Cons

Sometimes turbulent management environment. Several changes at CEO, many organizational changes, as well as a revolving door of VP's have made this a challenging place to truly know what is going on.

Advice to Senior Management

Consistency is the best way to keep a solid work force together.