Los Angeles Water and Power Reviews

Pros

Awesome pay, benefits, and time off

Cons

Hiring process is very long

Pros

relaxed, good pay, laid back

Cons

no learning, less vacations, location

Pros

Important organization Unionized Large team Benefits

Cons

Leadership direction Strategic direction is unclear

Pros

Great pay, benefits, pension, etc. You really can't go wrong taking any job at DWP. Great culture, great employee treatment, you get to serve the community of Los Angeles.

Cons

None I've personally experienced. I've heard higher up jobs can be a little bureaucratic and whatnot but that's to be expected with a city-run utility. As far as I'm concerned, we do a great job in terms of delivering safe and reliable water and power to the city of LA and that's what matters.

Pros

you can advance and salary

Cons

Company should diversify more in certain areas

Pros

Great pay. 40 hour work weeks. Great health benefits. Great retirement benefits. Great disability benefits.

Cons

Terrible work culture (generally depending on your supervisor/upper management). Management is short sighted, lacking long term vision. Spout nice things about diversity, equity and inclusion, zero-tolerance for harassment, etc... But reality is much different. Racial/ethnic politics abound. Very little consideration is usually given to actual abilities, merits, capabilities, etc... If one of the managers feels threatened by you, they will bad mouth you to others and block you from moving around. On the other hand, bad managers are protected and coddled. That's why LADWP pays out so much in harassment settlements (that are hidden from public sight).

Pros

Great benefits, overtime is pretty much unlimited, flexible scheduling.

Cons

Some people are set in their old ways as with any government agency.

Pros

I liked it there. The hours were good.

Cons

There were no cons in my opinion

Pros

Above average salary and employee benefits (medical insurance, pension, etc.). Equal pay for same job classification (regardless of gender, age, etc.).

Cons

Organization is ran by incompetent, ego-centric (or ego-fragile), obtuse men (mostly men), who lack real management skills, leadership, or basic ethics. Current and past LADWP's CEO are mostly engineers who have worked only at one single company (LADWP for 25 years) and have no experience in running/leading a business. They literally live and breathe only LADWP for 25+ years: big fish in a small pond. Organization operates as if it's still stuck in 1940s: racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism, ableism, xenophobia, islamophobia...(all -isms are still rampant and well practiced by every level of management and organization). Male engineers are treated like gods while women, POC, LGBTQ+, non-Christians have to keep their head down or 'play along and be one of the good ones' to succeed in the organization. Any critical thinking, independent judgement, innovation, etc. are not only discouraged but retaliated against. People get jobs or promotions through nepotism and by being 'yes-man'. Management treat employees as if they are mindless commodity to be controlled. They don't value their employees.

Pros

Benefits, life balance, culture, diversity, inclusion, and innovation

Cons

Red tape politics and long processes.