Westinghouse Employee Reviews about "management"

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to many meetings. Upper management may be pushing themselves and rest of employees a bit too hard for long term good.

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The management team is not very technical and works in a perpetual state of crisis. They seem to perpetually take shortcuts and end up shooting themselves in the foot. Much of the design is there, its just getting the right group of engineers to back it up with sane analysis (some management design constraints force engineers to make stupid/unrealistic assumptions that redefine the meaning of conservative).

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Salaries pale to comparable engineering jobs. The performance review system is severely broken; performance objectives are unrealistic and promotions/raises are not distributed equitably. Management appears deaf to employee concerns and has no real intention to make the difficult choices to improve matters. Significant overhead puts squeeze on engineers to perform work in unrealistic budgets and results in errors and rework. Morale is low and overall industry outlook is unclear.

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Management is largely cost and schedule focused and struggles to understand the regulatory quality requirements.

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With the threat of looming layoffs in March .. the company needs good hard working people not slackers because they have union seniority.

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Management is not on site since the pandemic and most people cant be reached when there is an issue.

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This place thrives on deception and lies. If you tell the truth, you are a troublemaker. WEC has downsized so many times, that only the 'yes' men/women are kept. They have tried to infuse new blood but retention is near impossible. They pay well to get you in the door but then shaft employees on raises. They now use the GE mentality of eliminating the lower performing employees (there is no 'they all are great;' WEC insists a gradient; thus, someone must suffer). Management cannot be challenged on a poor review (like asking someone else to look at the review). They nickel and dime departments right down to tightening the purse strings on stationary supplies. Meanwhile, Toshiba siphons off WEC's profits to buy up Toshiba's losses. The new builds are bound to fail as they are mismanaged and run by incompetent management staff. They will look the other way when they are told that a design will not work and would rather deal with design issues or schedule later rather than get in front of the problem before it becomes overwhelming. I'm not sure whether the China plants will ever get online.

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I can't overstate how toxic the relationship between regular employees and upper management has become. There have been stealth layoffs over the last 6 months where employees have been fired for absolutely trivial reasons to avoid paying severance. Then, none of those positions have been back-filled and instead mandatory unpaid overtime has been instituted for months on end with no relief in sight. People have families and lives outside of this company, the pressure is unsustainable and something will give soon if changes aren't made.

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Management seems to be out of touch with business goals and means to achieve them. I'm not sure if the company can be viable in the future should nuclear energy become less desirable/in demand.

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Hours are awful if you want to have any kind of life outside of work. False promises of having weekends off and then being called in most weekends. Management are terrible and use intimidation tactics to keep people from making them look bad. Unless you're best friends with someone higher up you are easily expendable. People who deserve to be fired are kept while others who should be hired or stay are fired or held back. Get on any of the managements' bad side and you'll have to live with them holding grudges. Certain managers swear and yell at Operators and are very unprofessional. Only guaranteed one day off every 21 days straight that you work. Everything is ranked by seniority so an intelligent individual is treated like they are as dumb as a rock if they haven't worked there as long as someone else.