SCANA Reviews

Pros

Excellent place to work. Great growth opportunities. Great benefits. Good salary.

Cons

None that I can think of...

Pros

They have Good Pay and Compensation.

Cons

Lots of Favoritism and push to promote women and minorities, some qualified, some no so much...

Pros

* Honestly good benefits package.

Cons

* This will vary somewhat between departments but middle management throughout this company is utterly horrible. There is a culture of absenteeism from the managers and department heads. After three years I've not seen earnest leadership. * There isn't room for advancement here. You will languish where you entered from. You can earn merit bonuses/raises but your actual job wont ever change. * With the... Dominion Energy acquisition, perhaps this will change but HR wields an absurd amount of power over technical interviews. The questions we were permitted to ask when interviewing candidates were pretty much useless. HR seems weirdly terrified of a lawsuit of any kind. * If you are technical, you will spend your time dealing with horrendous enterprise software, ever changing and annoying IT policies, and drudgery.

Pros

Cannot think of any pros except for orientation. They give you all the information needed in orientation.

Cons

The pay is low for the amount of work. Lots of politics and drama. It's all in who you know at that company to get anywhere or get anything like a bonus and/or pay raise. The more work you do the more they pile on while others do the minimum. Too many people get away with things that are not allowed like being on cellphone, surfing the web, and talking a lot while they are supposed to be working. Lots of... favoritism. They do not appreciate a hard worker and you do not get praise for doing a good job. You just get negative feedback and work in a negative environment. The work is great, it was the environment. Can't even trust the HR Department. The communication is the worse I've ever experienced, and not telling the truth. Lots of back stabbers and also being treated like a 5 year old. I have always heard that SCANA was a great place to work. Boy was I wrong. I'm in the process of looking.

Advice to Management

Replace some of the management that has been there a long time. Do not show favoritism and praise workers once in a while for a job well done instead of telling them the things they do wrong. No one is perfect, we are all human and we make mistaked. BETTER COMMUNICATION! The communication is terrible.

Pros

SCANA is the place to work if you want to leave your work at work. You don't have to, but you certainly can. The organization values the family atmosphere and more intangible benefits over competitive compensation packages you may find elsewhere. The pay is semi-competitive for the locale, and you can set your own pace of work. Benefits are relatively competitive. It is VERY easy to stand out as a top performer,... but you don't really get anything from it. With very few exceptions, as long as you show up and are physically present for your work hours, you will have a job until you choose to leave.

Cons

Company rep is in the gutter. Company is "age heavy". Median age is quite high, and SCANA is a pay-for-time company despite it's pay-for-performance incentive plan. New modern ideas are lacking, and "old school" best describes the atmosphere. If you see someone in their 20s, it was probably a grand-kid visiting for lunch. You can do almost nothing all day every day and get a 1-2% raise at the end of the year,... or you can work your tail off doing the work of 6 people and get 3%-4% if you are lucky. Most end up choosing the former and losing their work ethic and drive over time, which all-in-all means the global pace of work runs like a state agency. Promotional potential is limited due to the fact that the company will let people work until they die or choose to retire, and due to the aforementioned good benefits, people live and work forever. 40th and 50th work anniversaries are not uncommon, and we wonder why no O&M is available to pay top performers. SCANA in my estimation is about a 50% split of hard talented workers and retired-in-place leeches mooching pay checks every day.

Advice to Management

Consider actually paying for performance (or taking away for lack of performance). Consider matching offers or meeting halfway to retain good employees. Consider the "F" word ("fire") and do it to people that show up and do nothing all day everyday. Consider going around and trying to meet the people that work for you once or twice a year.

Pros

Great people to work with

Cons

Bottom line is they do things for appearance only

Pros

Good pay and opportunities

Cons

There are no days off at this job during outage.

Pros

Benefits are really good for the employees.

Cons

If you do a good job in your position, you get rewarded by being denied advancement opportunities. I was stuck in the same job for over 10 years, interveiwed 16 different times for advancement to the next level. Was told I interveiwed very well, my skill level was out of sight, I had a great attitude blah blah. The HR person did not like me so I was never chosen. She finally left the company. I did not get a... chance to do an interview with the new HR person. Scana is a big supporter of Blacks In Energy.