Xcel Energy Reviews

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Its a large corporation with a lot of bureaucracy and politics that any company has. Sometimes during certain times of year you may have to work long, grueling hours for outages and emergent issues.

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No real training program, just kinda go in and learn it.

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Benefits Great job benefits good living

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- Silo'd organization makes it difficult to get answers or assign ownership
 - Passing on of institutional knowledge is the main form of training and maintaining processes

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They are not quick to hire interns full time when they graduate.

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Was not assigned a lot of work at times and was not challenged enough. Communication lacked some among business units.

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I ended up doing a lot more compliance work that anything else.

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Zero accountability for most projects.

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This company is going through a transition. While there are more customers than in the past, there has not been an equal increase in revenue due to energy efficiency initiatives and other factors. As a result, Xcel is being conservative with compensation and is not creating new full time roles to adjust for the new workload. Instead, corporate is relying more and more on contractors and/or giving more work to its existing employees. As a result, it’s hard for contractors and interns to move into full time roles, and the full time employees are getting burnt out by the extra workload.

To make matters worse, new systems are purchased “off the shelf” instead of being customized to the business. As a result, the systems don’t communicate with each other which creates the need for manual processes to be used. This bogs down employees with extra work and often creates confusion and communication issues between departments.

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Management has their “favorite” employees. Bullying is commonplace and corporate will not look into the plant issues outside of Minnesota. They have you take an online class about bullying and call it good.