Xcel Energy Reviews

Pros

Its like a government job: there company is very well established and stable.

Cons

Its like a government job: there is a lot of inefficiency that one must tolerate.

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of your people, and your people will take care of you.

Pros

Good Pay , Good time off from work , Good foreman to work for on the job great training for getting your
journeyman certificate. Will make alot of money with this department

Cons

Promotions available based on friend status not experience , TRAPPED not able to transfer unless they want you to only dept that holds a person back

Advice to Senior Management

Do the right thing instead of talking about it. Let people transfer if they want to

Pros

Most jobs outside of the call center pay well with Xcel and they have a very high retention rate it seems.

Cons

The call center is a revolving door job and the management seems to be OK with that. They pay the new employees 10.00/hr and hire on as a temp so no benefits. They told me that if I reached all my goals after 6 months of employment that I could take a test and receive benefits and become full time. I blew all of my goals away and was told that benefits and full time was on hold indefinitely. The quarter before Xcel had revenue of just over 8 billions dollars. I can't imagine that their lowest paid employees cannot get an extra dollar an hour and some benefits.

Advice to Senior Management

Set realistic expectations regarding promotions and full time work.

Pros

base salaries tend to be competitive

Cons

No one works together. horrible medical plan 3500 dollar deductible for an individual and 7000 for a family. No company contribution to HSA.

Advice to Senior Management

IPAD is a system of giving feedback to employees, they give a rating correlating to a raise. no one is allowed 1-5 no is allowed to get a 5 and almost no one can get a 4 average 2-3 meaning average raise is only 2% a year for a good-great performer excellent will get a 3%.

Pros

average pay, benefits OK but shrinking

Cons

Little growth, little advancement, little training, a make the numbers company led by an accountant

Advice to Senior Management

Become realistic about employees, they will flee in a better economy.

Pros

Good stability for someone who is looking to not take a lot of risks.
Fair management that gives most people a chance

Cons

Slow to advance people who have potential
Risk adverse. This could be positive or negative depending on your opinion on risk.

Pros

flexable hours while in school, good pay, good people to work with, good experience for students, good chance to continue to work when done with school

Cons

sometimes not enough to do, sometimes need more direction to complete tasks and become more independent with dutties as a student wanting to learn.

Pros

great benefits, still offer a pension, some freedom to move internally, able to get things accomplished

Cons

leadership moves internally too much. Benefits slowly shrinking. Pay not up to market standards. Long tenured employees slow to change or adopt new ideas. Too many IT systems that don't connect, and are no longer supported by vendors.

Advice to Senior Management

Get your systems up to a current standard, and allow systems to share data! Serious need to look at real workforce planning. Half the people can leave in ten years, and there is no good plan to backfill.

Pros

OK place to work now.

Cons

no growth or position promotion

Advice to Senior Management

listen to the people suggestion box

Pros

Pay, benefits, the people I work with, managements attention to detail and safety.

Cons

Dogs, dogs, dogs, and dogs!

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the focus on safety and the well being of the employees.