Engineer - Mechanical Engineer EDF Employee Review

3.0
Jan 24, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay and benefits. Work/life balance is good and overtime & annual leave are very competitive. Also get a good amount of training early on in career. There is a desire to keep employees within the company.

Cons

Too much middle management structure. Managers contribute very little to the business and are more concerned about their performance metrics and how they are perceived by their peers. Severe lack of flexibility, innovation and ambition within the company which decreases staff motivation, narrows job responsibility and inhibits diverse development opportunities. Due to the good pay/benefits, people who are unhappy with their job become reluctant to leave.

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Cons

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Pros

Real opportunities to grow into more technical roles (Control Center Operator → Systems Engineer paths exist and aren't just on paper). You get hands-on experience with industrial systems most people only read about — OSI PI, SCADA, OMS integrations, cloud telemetry — which is hard to get elsewhere. Management generally supports continued education and certifications.

Cons

Decisions move slowly. Getting tooling, software, or process changes approved often involves multiple layers, including approvals that flow up to the French parent company. Procurement and IT requests can take weeks for things that would take a day at a smaller company. Some legacy systems and processes haven't been modernized — you'll find yourself working around quirks instead of fixing them.

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