PPL Reviews

Pros

PPL is a great company to work for. I have been with the company for many years and would highly recommend it. They provide me with excellent benefits, opportunities for growth, and a fun atmosphere.

Cons

There are not any cons for me.

Pros

Corporate leadership is strong, work is always challenging and there is always something to do, flexible with schedules and pay is good for the area.

Cons

company feels like it is in a constant state of change, its hard to see the vision.

Pros

Lots of learning. Empowered to do interesting work out of necessity (low head count). Gained many transferable skills.

Cons

Senior level management is clueless as to how a utility makes money. IT organization is a train wreck, many projects implemented failed because of poor IT management. Need people to manage systems. Cost cutting is valued at the detriment of future value.

Advice to Management

Sell the company to different management; it is the best hope for current employees and the local area to have jobs in the future.

Pros

Good pay and decent benefits

Cons

Low morale, Negative environment, Unhappy people

Pros

Easy job, pretty stable employment (unless you're IT or when there's leadership change) especially if you suck up to management, pay is decent for low skills labor. This is a good stepping stone career or if you have strong connection with upper management.

Cons

No career growth, management is terrible and clueless of what they're doing, many wasted resources on higher level employees, ambition is perceived as a threat by others and will be discriminated against

Advice to Management

Learn some technical skills and learn to lead by example

Pros

Salary is great for the area

Cons

No caring about employees, questionable senior mgmt. Terrible IT systems. Experienced IT personnel let go. Questionable procedures. Desegregation...one department does not communicate with the other. Culture is negative. Cultural revitalization in works, but all say, no action. Things still running the same. No training, no change procedures. Alot of seniors citizens still work there dont understand new call center culture,...

Advice to Management

Find new methods to mix old with new methods, add more risk assessment tools to procedures. When enacting or editing the way processes are done, do everything while looking at whole picture not just one particular department.

Pros

Salary was competitive - still good for the area

Cons

IT Leadership is clueless. Just let go of 50% of the workforce and demoted and cut salaries for many of the others. Morale is terrible.

Advice to Management

Fire the CIO before he sinks the company! He just blocked an employee from leaving IT and then had him perp-walked out of the building. What a joke. I'm sure morale will be boosted by that!

Pros

Ups and down, can get hectic.

Cons

Rushed work, hard to keep up with things