Westinghouse Employee Reviews about "benefit"

Cons

-incredibly demanding...I've more than once been called in the middle of the night to work on something -Not enough trust in employees....recent badging in/'we're watching how long you're in the office' policies make you feel like you work for a call center or something, even though we are all professional employees who often work many many hours of overtime at home -Health insurance benefits are scary-bad. If you are in good health, subtract at least 1000 dollars from your salary a year for random unpaid medical bills....usually blood tests. But if you have a family, you can count on even more unanticipated out of pocket costs. It also doesn't cover a lot of things you would think would be no brainers. Asthma medication, for example....costs 100 (rescue inhaler only) -200 (rescue inhaler plus corticosteroid) dollars a month for my wife. The benefits get worse every year, and the employee contributions go up. Really not competitive when you look at companies like GE or AREVA's benefits, whose benefits are outstanding.

Cons

- much of leadership (aka, mgmt), especially at senior levels, are poor decision makers and divorced from knowing what's truly in the best interest of the company and customers - tail wags the dog (aka, HR and legal have too much sway over technical groups in terms of business decisions) - "do as I say, not as I do" mindset, especially when it comes to work environment priorities and practices (i.e. mgmt preaches safety then quality the production but in reality production is priority #1) - lack of rigorous and effective change implementation processes

Cons

Management and Benefits not worth it

Cons

Old company set in their ways and not able to embrace the need to change and remove the "good ol' boys".

Cons

In addition to all the reviews below The maximum merit increase (annual raise) in June for the majority of employees was 3.25%. HR isn't fooling anyone by not including where we fall in their "Market Pay Indicators" during the annual review this year. I guess they figure that everyone should be happy because this year's raise is better than the 0% last June. With inflation over the last 2 years being relatively low, I may actually be breaking even. On top of this, Incentivized managers have a 10% bonus target, Directors' bonus is either 23% or 33% depending on your tenure and position, while VPs have a 46% bonus target... not too shabby. I'm glad they can afford their luxury items this year.... You are welcome from everyone actually performing revenue generating work. Unfortunately, the thanks we get is further cost reductions so you can meet your financial targets for the upcoming year and get next year's bonus. This seems more like management's "Right to Grow" their bank accounts.

Cons

The current Canadian owners have decided that American jobs pay too much, so work is outsourced to cheaper European and Indian employees. The Europeans are pretty good and seem to know what they're doing. The Indians are cheap, which is good because they take three times as long to get anything done, and even then it's likely to contain errors which need to be fixed leading to increased cost. So say goodbye to well-paying jobs supporting the American middle class.

Cons

- near complete lack of competent, capable leaders, from top to bottom - lots of nepotism - very local hiring (Most offices worldwide are staffed primarily by locals, so it winds up being a 'multinational' firm and not an integrated global firm.) - main headquarters is new, but located very far from the city - building itself is not well-designed - tenure is usually confused with experience and capability - very short-term business focus - really bad in an industry involved in very long-term projects - benefits are good for Pittsburgh but not great compared to other large firms

Cons

Senior management is, for the most part, a group of self-serving ego maniacs with only their best interest (such as incentive pay and executive benefits) in mind. It is clear the 'general' employee population is not valued--this can be seen through mandatory overtime without compensation, lack of adequate raises (if any), reduction in benefits, 'stealth' layoffs, and other unscrupulous practices. The environment is toxic and management rewards bullies. It is apparent that being a member of the 'club' will land people in positions they aren't qualified for and don't deserve. These actions, combined with poor decision making at the top, have left the company in shambles.

Cons

-working at this company sounds good, but because the company is constantly in turmoil/crisis/restructure mode, you will never complete any projects to add to your own resume -promotion process is scarily opaque and secretive even when you have met all the criteria for promotion and have good performance ratings. somehow people you have trained as interns can be at a higher pay band than you are. -petty coworkers/managers who don't develop themselves are too scared to share information for fear of being replaced -repetitive busy work: no one really does any engineering, years of this will make you unemployable without trying really hard to sell whatever silly, paper pushing function you previously had at Westinghouse -new projects are always around the corner with locations in unstable, poor regions of the world, said projects never actually materialize in the form of cash flow into the company -no innovation/new designs to roll out since the AP1000 technology was sold/stolen by the Chinese -very easy to get pigeonholed into a piddly function because mobility throughout the organization is dependent upon (can be stunted by) your managers approval. you will then be laid off after being determined redundant even though you have a broad skill set and utility in other areas of the company which are also doing rather poorly based on the reviews here -professional development makes people targets for removal because managers are old, close to retirement and indifferent to actual completion of projects, managers are the same people who built previous projects that went over budget and 10 years behind schedule e.g. Vogtle 1&2

Cons

they're only in pittsburgh, and it's very hard to move between offices. I'll need to relocate eventually, which sucks because i like working here. The benefits are ok but not great. You pay a very small portion of health insurance, but retirement is goofy. For example, 401k vests over three years, which means your money isn't growing all that fast.