ENGIE reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(2,272 total reviews)
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Catherine MacGregor

90% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

ENGIE has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,272 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ENGIE employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energia, mineração, utilitários industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
3.0
Jan 12, 2016

Not Bad

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a pretty friendly company, in this position you're allowed casual dress and they do a lot of little parties and things for morale/team building. Benefits are decent.

Cons

Sometimes things can get a little *too* friendly. I didn't like feeling that I might be missing on opportunities because I wasn't buds with the bosses. There was also a big blame culture when things got busy and I really didn't like the stress of that.

4.0
Oct 22, 2015

Working at Ecova

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

People are nice, PTO is good, and company provides a large employment base in Spokane. Career advancement possible depending on effort given and relationships formed. Lunchrooms and other facilities are in good condition. Company activities and holiday food gatherings are well received.

Cons

Hourly and salary wage amounts are not transparent, which makes knowing career paths more difficult. Amount of change seems unnecessary. Software programs are outdated. Revenue goals are perpetually missed. Bonuses are non-existent. Sales team hasn't re-evaluated price increases for clients. Overspending on failed acquisitions has brought down money for more important in-house upgrades. Employee turnover is excessive.

3.0
Sep 7, 2015

A behemoth being challenged and trying to innovate

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Being part of Engie has the usual perks associated with belonging to most gigantic (and reasonably well managed from financial perspective, not necessarily strategically) organizations: vast asset base allows the generation of huge amount of operating cash flow and hence relative financial stability (for the short term at least); prudent balance sheet management, well-established relationship with the banking communicty and easy access to the capital market leave the spigot of liquidity constantly on when it comes to new investments (again for the short term at least); economy of scale innate to the energy infrastructure business means that the company can afford to compensate employees with a competitive base salary and generous bonus pay out (again for the short term at least); the company's presence across the globe creates job opportunity for those who wishes to move around.

Cons

On the other hand, Engie is also hobbled by the same pitfalls that trouble most big companies. Layers of management and committee-based decision making process slow things down. The company tries to reinvent itself in the midst of the rise of decentralized electricity generation by setting up internal incubators and VC type of inevstment vehicles. But the culture, organizational structure and incentive package may not be condusive to generatiing real transformational innovations. Whatever incremental innovations that do come to fruition dwarf the existing scale of the company and therefore have little impact on the company's bottom line in the near to medium term. Eventually, the question facing the shareholders is probably: should Engie exist in its current form?

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