Q&A With Duke Energy Corporation Employees

Question 1

Asked to all employees at Duke Energy Corporation

IT generally approves of the CEO. Although their exposure to her may be through quarterly meetings, she's anointed initiatives that are generally doing well. Safety, transformation, and communication are generally up. And as long as those things remain positive, so do her ratings.
I think CEOs in general get paid WAY too much for what they do. As an account I think she has very little connection with what her workers do and she only sees us as numbers to be cut for a better bottom line. She has never been "in the trenches" so has no idea what it takes to get the job done.

Answer

The longer the tenure, the more compensation diverges from market rates. Seemingly impossible to true up.

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Automating stuff so I have to do less work

Question 2

Asked to all employees at Duke Energy Corporation

Question 3

Asked to all employees at Duke Energy Corporation

My experience was about 4 to 5 weeks, but that was over 30 years ago so hopefully by now it has changed.

Question 4

Asked to all employees at Duke Energy Corporation

Right now? Fairly horrible. They just announced a 30% cut in man power at the operating units and a 50% cut at corporate. So there are a lot of people very worried about the jobs that they have and are looking at how the required work is going to get completed. They tend to cut people to decrease operational costs but never relieve the administrative burden so work can actually be completed.

Question 5

Asked to all employees at Duke Energy Corporation

Question 6

Asked to the IT Department at Duke Energy Corporation

I work standard office hours. If you're in support you'll be on pager duty. Pager duty means your schedule isn't entirely your own, but they spread the pain across teams. IT is bimodal in Duke Energy: either you're supporting stable processes, or you're innovating hard. While everyone's modernizing, the innovator teams do feel similar to startup cultures.

Question 7

Asked to the IT Department at Duke Energy Corporation

There are all kinds. However, things are rapidly modernizing. This is not the same IT atmosphere that I was hired into, and that's a good thing. Essentially, I used to think Duke IT was its own animal like the Galapagos Islands, but recently they've drawn heavily from the market. What's state of the art out there is getting imported, and innovations internally are being shared outside. That said, rate of evolution heavily depends on what dept you're in

Question 8

Asked to the IT Department at Duke Energy Corporation

During my engagement with them, I feel like they've treated my questions legitimately and answered them as honestly as they could. In the past year I haven't had the sense that they're machinating behind closed doors. I'd give them good marks.

Question 9

Asked to the Engineering Department at Duke Energy Corporation

It truly is dependent on what you are doing and what site you are at. Design engineers have a much more regimented life style while the CMS folks respond to emergent issues. Corporate is a completely different beast. It is truly dependent on your supervisor and site.