Used to be great - Anonymous employee Pine Gate Renewables Employee Review

Pine Gate is growing really fast and the people here know their stuff (highly competent) and senior management has a clear vision for the company. People are nice and culture is great overall

It’s my third year at this firm and I can’t think of any about the firm as a whole. Leadership takes employee feedback and welfare very seriously so it’s hard to even come up with any cons

When I was hired, this company was the epitome of how a corporate company should be run. The executives were very involved, the benefits were amazing, the people and the culture were great. The company had a lot of emphasis on affinity groups such as Women and LGBTQ+ and sustainability. The direct team I worked with were all amazing.

All within 2025 the leadership of the company completely crashed everything. What once felt like a very open and transparent company become one of secrets, unannounced layoffs, and hearing things through the grapevine. While never blatantly "sexist" in their actions and very careful to not do anything that could be deemed such on paper, there was widely noticed pattern men with less experience and expertise being promoted with ease while women had to prove themselves for a substantial amount of time and fight to get any sort of promotions. They did several rounds of demotions, only to women. It quickly became a very "boys-club" feel. The people who were promoted or retained for when the company declared bankruptcy are those who were close with the CDO now CEO of the new dev company. Loyalty to him and his "Finance-Bro" mentality is what retained you at the company or got you anywhere, while anything questioning him was dismissed. To add insult to injury, employees being laid off with the bankruptcy, multiple of which have been with the company since its formation, will not receive any severance while it is widely known that the leadership executives are receiving large retention bonuses for seeing the company through bankruptcy. Leadership did not even have the audacity to speak to the company as a whole regarding the process of what to expect, rather they sent a member of HR (who is also being let go) to deliver the news individually to team members. It has left such a bad taste in my mouth for a company that I thought was truly great and has completely disregarded amazing employees and people.