Southern California Edison Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Southern California Edison full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – For the most part, people take their roles seriously and care about the results they deliver. Tremendous opportunity for thoughs who work hard and contribute to improvements and being part of the solution. I love the collaboration betwen

Cons – Just like anywhere else there will be those challenging personalities and dynamics between Business Units and Support Units that manifest themselves as territorial. But you balance that with your very own attitude on how you handle people and circumstances. You write the book of your own career now matter where you are. Where ever you go the mix and blend of challenges will differ, but you are the common denominator.

Advice to Senior Management – If you don't have the attitude of working along side and developing the best out people, then you should not be a manager or leader. Having said that I've had great experiences working with SCE Leaders.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Southern California Edison full-time for less than a year

Pros – Outstanding benefits (including such perks as profit sharing, paid gym, performance bonus), pleasant work environment (my department anyway), supportive management, friendly and professional teammates. Met people from other departments, SCE overall appears to be a pleasant place to work.

Cons – Have heard some divisions and managers are slave drivers and very tough to work for. Must serve 1.5 years in a role before applying for another position. Performance expectations are high, you better know your stuff, at least that's the way it was in my department.

Advice to Senior Management – Know what you really want the person to do in the position, tell the person exactly what you want and expect, probe and see if the person has the level of experience to do the job.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Southern California Edison full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Decent salary (industry standard) and benefits. This may change if the company is sold.

Cons – The rumor is that the company will get sold in the next few years. This is the only explanation for bringing in Baine for the latest round of lay-offs. Lay-offs have included managers with decades of experience, leaving behind gaps in expertise that cannot be covered. SCE may also be trying to cover for expensive blunders at SONGS and with Edison Mission Energy. Employees are being stretched extremely thin and workloads are increasing exponentially. The company gives lip service to safety and employee satisfaction but the management style is paranoid. Slip-ups by management tend to be blamed on line employees. The situation for union workers is much better.

Advice to Senior Management – Realize that the recent management changes have not resulted in positive changes to the company. The work gets done by line employees who are being squeezed to produce more work in less time. There is only so much work that staff employees can do without the resources they need. Lay-offs are not the answer.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Southern California Edison as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Autonomy, working with a vairiety of people in different skills set; engineers, project managers, marketing people, etc.

Cons – Politics is a major problem at SCE

Advice to Senior Management – Don't micro-manage employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Southern California Edison full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great company great salary plus benefits lots of opportunity for growth and development!!

Cons – Company iscurrently going through major org restructure.

Advice to Senior Management – Executive Management provide more training to lower level management
Listen to your employees and take action on their concerns.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Southern California Edison

Pros – Nice people, great work/life balance, well paid job

Cons – Slow moving, incredibly change-resistant, and old fashioned

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Southern California Edison full-time for less than a year

Pros – Above market pay for the hours and the work in my group was genuinely interesting. Not a bad place to work if you want a solid 9-5 and you're more interested in life outside of work than rapid career progression. My understanding is there are large variances between groups. In my group the managers and people were nice, intelligent, and truly did care but were also bound by the limits of the overall corporate structure.

Cons – I was in a young group, but outside of my group the average age is a few years shy of a retirement home. Especially with budget cuts, opportunities to truly advance are limited and lengthy with length of service being #1 over merit. Potential to get pigeonholed on multi-year projects building skills that wouldn't be useful outside of a utility. Moves at a governmental pace.

Former Employee – worked at Southern California Edison full-time for less than a year

Pros – Many high achieving, high performing, all-around good people.

Cons – Reorganizations are the norm, so people are in a constant state of uncertainty. Heavy workloads. Almost no work-life balance. Title-driven organization with too many layers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Southern California Edison full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Edison is a great company to work for. All the employees are very friendly and make you feel at home right away. They have great benefits: Medical, Dental 401k, Pension etc. You automatically get 2 weeks vacation to start or more depending on the position your applying for. You can also purchase additional vacation time with pretax deductions on your check. =)

Cons – Sometimes it gets very busy and its very stressful. Your dealing with lots of upset customers and they naturally want answers asap. If it gets very busy they may call mandatory overtime with little to no notice.

Current Employee – been working at Southern California Edison full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Close-knit department. A lot of valuable knowledge and experience to be gained with excellent training.

Cons – Little room for growth in an unknown future

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend