ENGIE reviews

3.9

79% would recommend to a friend

(2,269 total reviews)
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Catherine MacGregor

89% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

ENGIE has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,269 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 Energía, minería e infraestructura pública industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Sep 17, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company has allowed work from home during the pandemic. There are some great employees who work here.

Cons

If you find yourself in a leadership position, expect to feel the extreme pressure from your manager to produce the amount of work well beyond what the company is willing to allocate resources for. Your employees will be ghastly underpaid and overworked. You will have no ability to truly award the productive team members who bring in a level of experience and product knowledge required for their role. The disciplinary tract although aggressive, is not effective in placing the right person within their strengths. I believe this to be in consequence to the manager's lack of training, poor personal time management, and unwillingness to invest in their employees. In addition, the lack of truly understanding the product, the inability to analyze data within a basic Excel spreadsheet, and refusal to understand the deliverables detailed in their client contracts is astounding to me. The same company who is harsh against the lowest tier employees whom they underpay and overwork should hold their management and leads to a higher standard. If a lead or manager is unable to understand their own product, the data behind the metrics, or the contract - They Need More Training Or They Need To Be Demoted. Stop hiring or promoting solely because of someone's personality. Most importantly, this company has generated a toxic environment that has elements of misogyny, paranoia, and favoritism. During my employment I witnessed vocal and dominant men receiving more promotion opportunities and praise over women who shared similar characteristics and performance. This is not an Engie exclusive issue, but as a large employer of the Spokane area they need to do better. Women deserve better. If the company cannot get this under control, they will lose powerful employees to other companies willing to pay appropriately.

2.0
Apr 24, 2020

Company going down hill

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits are OK, other employees are good to work with, & casual work environment.

Cons

The CEO created an office for himself in New York City for the prestige. The bulk of the employees work in an office in Spokane, WA so he really doesn't see what is happening with the company he is "overseeing" other than looking at numbers and what is pushed up from lower management that report what makes them look good. Quantity is now viewed as more important than quality which is the reverse of what the company was founded on. Often promotions are based on friendships and activities like drinking outside of worktime. In many areas, if you aren't a partier you don't fit in and you won't get ahead. There isn't much in the way of training yet employees are expected to hit the ground running and are evaluated on things they have not been trained on. Deskside training only means people are training others what they think is the right way to do things even though it might not be correct. This company has been around long enough it shouldn't be floundering like it is. The constant changes in leadership, company name, process changes, etc. is keeping this company down. Leadership refuses to take into account what has already been tried and they try it again because it's now their idea and "it's never been done before". There is also the programs that have been purchased that don't fit what is needed but yet "they" keep trying to make it work rather than admitted to the mistake, cutting the losses and moving on.

1.0
Oct 17, 2017

Toxic culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None. Seriously, it used to be the best place to work. Great people. However, a lot of the good ones have either left or been fired.

Cons

10 CEOs later and millions paid in parachutes, the people who made it great have either left or been fired and the good ones still there have all been silenced for fear of losing their jobs.

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