Westinghouse Reviews

Pros

Very supportive and active managers that help employees reach their potential

Cons

Every project requires the hiring of outside consultants. You would think that with all the FTE's and educated individuals, someone can figure out a problem without paying big bucks for these consultants.

Advice to Senior Management

Streamline management. Too many VP's and Directors. Or, too many chiefs and not enough indians!

Pros

People generally very friendly
Flexible work hours
Good pay

Cons

Task goals aren't always made clear

Advice to Senior Management

Distribute workload more evenly (too much down time with short bursts of heavy workload)

Pros

Great Pay especially for entry level
Flexible schedule
Decent Workload

Cons

Always behind on work so everyone is always rushing
They need to update shop machines
Management is not the best and there are too many non important meetings

Advice to Senior Management

Less meetings and more work

Pros

Good pay, benefits - flexible work schedules

Cons

No long term plans, management direct changes, cumbersome processes

Advice to Senior Management

develop a long term plan and keep to it

Pros

pays well, but pays well for a reason.

Cons

For young grads it seems easy to get pigeonholed.

Advice to Senior Management

communicate better

Pros

Nice cafeteria, nice fitness center on site. Conveniently located near 79 and the turnpike. Opportunities for travel and overseas work. Sometimes opportunities open. Wonderful colleagues.

Cons

Management goes in circles with the same problems over and over. Terrible at preventing problems. All "perks" such as work-life balance, telecommuting, condensed schedule are taken away the moment any issues occur (which is 9 times out of 10) and employee morale drops. Turnover rates are the highest in years.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to prevent instead of react. The old saying if it ain't broke don't fix it seems to be a standard, or "that is the way we always did it". Seasoned employees and managers do not appreciate new ideas, especially if you are not a Westinghouse Lifer or fresh out of school.

Pros

Westinghouse is the leader in the nuclear market with solid products and an experienced workforce. There are many opportunities to learn and new disciplines to explore.

Cons

Westinghouse is a large company with a very flat organizational structure. In some cases, there can be limited opportunities for promotion, although there are many opportunities to try new positions.

Advice to Senior Management

The leadership at Westinghouse remains very conservative. It could be beneficial if Westinghouse could be more agressive in their messaging and marketing to affirm their leadership in the nuclear market.

Pros

Good communication from management
Industry is growing

Cons

Long hours
Many Re-Orgs
Office Re-locations Occur Often

Pros

good work life balance
lots of opportunities for engineers

Cons

management principles are 20 years old ( lack of understanding of new generation aspirations)

Advice to Senior Management

Have a mindful resource growth strategy for the long term, not just short term horizon.
Validate internally with product groups any outside consultants "recommendations"

Pros

Lots of change and challanges, always an area to improve

Cons

So many changes that it is often difficult to complete and focus on job at hand, long hours.

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce change to allow the business to adapt and improve