TransCanada Reviews

Current Employee – been working at TransCanada as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – - the people are awesome
- always willing to offer help

Cons – - none, everything is pretty good

Advice to Senior Management – - none

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

Current Employee – been working at TransCanada as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Big company and lots of opportunity

Cons – They most likely won't hire anyone that's not a engineer

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

Current Employee – been working at TransCanada full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – good people, good benefits, and opportunities for those who are young

Cons – political environment which is counter to corporate values

Advice to Senior Management – Those in management need to be more seasoned individuals. The depth and breadth of one's work experience, and not youthfulness and education, should be the determining factor into who excels at TransCanada.

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

Current Employee – been working at TransCanada full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great benefits, great work & life balance, and good people to work with

Cons – Promotion is not based on performance, rather seniority. Pay is not tied to performance. Unnecessary need to use team leads that adds another layer to business processes. No minority member of the executive leadership team, not even in the Director position, VP, Senior VPs, or Executive Leadership Team (it's still a white man's world at TransCanada).

Advice to Senior Management – Eliminate team leads, we're are all professionals and not high school student at a grocery store that needs someone to push us around and monitor our actions. Delegate and people will more than deliver. Hire or promote a minority member to the executive leadership team. Tie pay and promotion to performance not Seniority.

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

Current Employee – been working at TransCanada

Pros – Lots of opportunities to move around the company

Cons – None I can think of

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

Former Employee – worked at TransCanada full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great benefits, great people to work with.

Cons – Some departments and managers had poor vision for developing people.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at TransCanada

Pros – Benefits are much better than most places, the more progressive Canadian policies are definitely in evidence.

Cons – Energy is in general is a male dominated industry. This was particularly true in the Portland office of TransCanada. Golfing was a favorite activity and women were rarely asked to participate in the golfing field trips that managers went on with their favorite staff.

Advice to Senior Management – Address equality and sensitivity issues more seriously

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TransCanada

Pros – Good people and a reasonable approach to issues. the management style is fairly fluid management. Smaller groups are temporarily created to address issues with full senior management support to avoid red-tape.

Cons – The compensation system is overly complex and lower than it probably should be relative to competitors.

Advice to Senior Management – Generally the leadership is doing a good job so I would suggest maintaining the same style. A better records management system would be helpful.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at TransCanada

Pros – Company with good benefits and compensation, generally good work environment, and healthy work/life balance.

Cons – As restructuring began, environment was less than nice. Took over a perfectally run subsidiary company and pretty much dissolved it and divested of the employees - many 35-40 years.

Advice to Senior Management – Worry less about location and more about performance of employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TransCanada

Pros – Lots of things going on. Good people. Star bucks in the lobby. Good salary and benefits. Seem to be proactive.

Cons – Moving around company is difficult. Work load. Not enough people to do the work. Seem really proud to have people work long hours.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to progress the company and grow the company into new areas of North America. Continue to support employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend