Pepco Holdings Reviews

Pros

Great benefits, 401K matching, pensions (who does pension anymore!?!), good health benefits, flexible hours.

Cons

Lack of satisfaction in the work. Little to no exciting innovation. Reactive vs proactive culture. Dated knowledge base.

Pros

Not to many positive thing to say. My peers are brilliant and are deserving of more monetarily.

Cons

Managers are inexperienced and need to work on management skills.

Advice to Senior Management

Managers need training beyond field of interest.

Pros

Depending on the group - you have a very knowledgable group that know what they are doing.
The company is very focus on enhancing their image within the company as well as outside the company (i.e. public).

Cons

There is a rare opportunity for growth to move up.
Communication about the business may not always go down the chain timely.

Advice to Senior Management

How to provide movement for employees that are in lower positions that are not executive management to give them opportunity for growth and challenges

Pros

Good work life balance (depending on department/manager)
Location

Cons

Growth Potential is not very high
Culture is OLD
Informtation sharing between departments and even in departments can be like pulling teeth.

Advice to Senior Management

Get youth into PHI and quickly

Pros

Pepco Holdings, Inc offers comperable benefits including life, health, 401K, flexible spending accounts for child care and medical expenses as well as Dental and accidental death and dismemberment.

Cons

May of the managers are incompetent and are allowed to stay just because they have been working there for numerous years.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of managers who have less than 5 driect reports. Develop employees who want to grow professionally. Hold manager 100 percent accountable.

Pros

You will learn a lot from the experienced staff

Cons

Doesn't provide any feedback for your work

Advice to Senior Management

i will recmmend it

Pros

Everyone is supportive, caring, willing to help, want to see each other succeed.

Cons

Annual bonuses are not guaranteed. Minor physical issues like sometiems its way too cold int eh building.

Advice to Senior Management

Quarterly meetings with all employees.

Pros

Easy to shine amid the dead wood. Secure positions in the regulated company. Takes a lot to be fired. Comfortable. Generally good people just plodding along in their jobs. Some really good people carrying 80% of the workload. Provides lots of different topics of work if self-motivated.

Cons

Lots of dead wood. Lack of resources to do job, piling on the work with no recognition. Lots of "inside" promotions and advancements - fair policy in place that allows lots of gaming. Still too much typical old-school utility mentality.

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up and hold employees accountable like your values say. Stop the insider hiring and networking that limits finding talent already in-house. Value inside talent more than outside consulting.

Pros

Job Security. This is a company where you can work 20 - 30 years and still find interesting work to do.

Cons

Limited promotional opportunties right now; however it will be openning up quite a bit in the next few years as many managers, supervisor and seniors retire.

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

The company is very culturally diverse. There is relatively high job security. Depending on which department your work with they are very flexible when it comes to balancing work-life issues. Work location in Washington DC is great with access to many many great things to do at lunch!

Cons

The company is a very old company, so there are certain aspects of the group mentality that reflect this. It's not a cutting edge, progressive thinking company when it comes to new technologies and ideas. The benefits package could be a little better when it comes to vacation time and sick time.

Advice to Senior Management

The best way to compete for new employees is to improve the softer aspects of the benefits package : more vacations time, more sick time, more opportunity to work remotely.