Pros
- Many nice and competent people here
Cons
When the remote work policy was eliminated, some senior leaders communicated to Michael Polsky (CEO) that "people will leave" and he responded with "we will hire more." That's the ethos of this company--you truly are expendable. Leadership's goal is to make you work with abysmally fewer resources than you need and horrendous benefits until you burn out and leave. There is effectively $0 invested in anything that doesn't directly create money in the view of Invenergy's ~75-year-old billionaire CEO. Everything that creates a safe, healthy, and inclusive workplace is completely ignored or at most, receives the performative treatment. Some examples: 1) the company has various affinity groups for underrepresented/marginalized groups which have no influence and exist purely so the company can tout the groups when recruiting/in public messaging. 2) there is NO management training - there are some of the most deeply incompetent leaders I've ever met in my life here--especially in the Transmission Business. People are so unmotivated and morale is bad, and leadership does not care. 3)"for the good of the company culture:" - remote work was eliminated for the "benefit of the company culture" and because we "all work better together in-person." What culture? The one where no one sits near their teams, where there is "no money for team-building" activities, where People of Color express feeling tokenized?? The one where about 20 people were fired in a single day (mostly from a single office) and there was no email that went out explaining what happened?? "We all work together better in person-" But there's legitimately not enough space for people, last summer the interns shared conference rooms, and the amenities are trash. We got new coffee a few weeks ago and it's....just as bad as before. There are no tissues anywhere, no hand sanitizer, and no bowls (at least on some of the floors) in the cafeterias. Maybe these things weren't/aren't a big deal to people, but post pandemic it's unacceptable that we are not providing these basic products to people at work. 5) a kind of amusing one was the holiday gift...they gave us $50 to buy swag at the company store (which is enough for a tumbler or a cheaply made tshirt). What a gift! Polsky gives us $50 that we get to spend on something that makes him money! 6) natural gas baby! We have something like 10GW of new natural gas resources in the queue. Go to our website and tell me from looking at the home page if we mention natural gas once? You might miss it, but yes we do--once at the very bottom of the page! You may have missed it b/c we hyper emphasize our clean energy portfolio. Polsky knows how important appearing sustainable is--but truly does not give a single f*** and is happy to invest in the destruction of our planet, no problem. Invenergy is pitched as a climate forward/progressive/sustainable company on its public facing materials/during interviews, but at its core it's not. 7) I've had friends tell me that Invenergy's parental leave policy is so bad that they wouldn't be able to have a child working at this company. 8) Health insurance is expensive and coverage is BAD. If you care about climate change; want to work for a company that does even the bare minimum to demonstrate it values its employees; want quality training/competent management; and value a company that invests in building an inclusive work environment, do NOT work here. I am so unhappy and--like many of my colleagues--am looking to leave ASAP.
