Southern California Edison Reviews in Los Angeles, CA Area

Pros

Friendly, calm evironment, a lot of room to grow.

Cons

Can really use in house engineering to save money.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work.

Pros

-There is a lot of room for growth! You can start in the company at the very bottom and work yourself up to the very top.
-The pay is excellent; they really treat their employees well when it comes to hourly pay/salary pay.
-Awesome benefits, 401k, vacation, etc.
-Awesome bonus checks / award points that are distributed to employees

Cons

-They make you drive everywhere, and they do not care if it’s an inconvenience.
-Many jobs require a lot of travel, which can be detrimental to your personal life.
-Sometimes management isn’t as informative as they should be, and it leaves a lot of confusion as to what the appropriate / right thing is.
-One thing I’ve had a problem with is that I was hired for a job in one location, but I live at another location. They expect me to constantly drive back and forth, back and forth. It can get annoying when the distance between the two places takes hours and hours. I wish they wouldn’t make people travel so much and such far distances, that is one thing that annoys me.

Pros

The pay is very good. The company's work culture is not as hectic as one would believe in a large corporation. The employees are very nice and helpful when asked questions or for help. Many of the employees are very welcoming and wouldn't mind being bother if you have any questions about anything regarding the company or their work.

Cons

The work environment in some buildings can be very dim light. The software at Edison is very old and needs to be upgrades to a better operating system.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work in supporting their employees and praising them. Keep them in the loop of every project.

Pros

Benefits, stability, perks, location, atmosphere

Cons

Fair promotions, no incentive to perform well, cronyism

Advice to Senior Management

Respect your employees

Pros

The company offers really good benefits. That's probably one of the best things about working for the company. And there are some great people to work with and some not so great.

Cons

you have to brown nose your way up to the corporate ladder. it's really pathetic. You are not recognized for your skills and abilities. The company is very political.

Advice to Senior Management

Change is imperative for a company to grow and succeed. Employees will not be motivated to lead the way if you fail to recognize their skills and capabilities. Advancement for growth should not be political.

Pros

Really Easy People to work with.
Lots of learning room. Take college work seriously and encourage doing it no matter what.
Really good knowledge sharing.

Cons

More opportunities should be given to new people.

Pros

The company have excellent benefits and is a good place to spend the rest of your career. The compensation is very competitive although the merit increase (raise) is very slow.

Cons

There are too many management. you have to go to 6-10 Tiers of management to get to the VP. The higher management basically just attends meetings so that he can pass on the information in the form of another meeting to managers below him. Most managers are not performers but are relay catalysts who just passes the command to lower managers for execution by employees. Communication is one-way and it is very hard to bring a concern forward to upper management.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees and do something about their concerns. Get your feet wet by actually observing how a task is accomplished instead of having a set of theorized instructions that does not work in the real world.

Pros

- Stable
- Competitive salary
- Great benefits
- Strong commitment to safety
- Some opportunities for training
- Semi commitment to ethics

Cons

- Impossible to get a promotion unless you are part of the good old boys club, belonging to a certain religious or ethnic group, or a relative
- Micro managers
- Top heavy, 4 chiefs for every 1 Indian
- Work Life balance is a lie

Advice to Senior Management

The workforce has moved into the 21st century, so should you and your thinking

Pros

stable industry not suffering from economic crisis, job for life, great benefits and work and home life is well balanced. Lot's of locations to work within So Cal.

Cons

management are micro managers, NO sense of team building and mentoring. You will be ask to spend as much money as you can in one year, just to meet yearly budget, even if the rate payer (all of us) pays the bill.

Advice to Senior Management

try hiring management within the department and or in line promotion. Avoid bringing in your buddies and ex-coworkers from the old Nuclear plant.
Do what is right for the rate payer, not your performance bonus. Trying push a project through before the end of year just to meet corporate goal should not be allowed if Safety and compliance will be at risk. Share holders should be 2nd place in the priority, not the public.

Pros

High character, quality oriented organization that is about doing things right.

Cons

Some old school habits promoting those who have been around just because they are around still.

Advice to Senior Management

give exception to the 18mo rule when it makes sense