Portland General Electric Company Employee Reviews

Used to be a good place to work, but cannot recommend now. Culture is negative, management constantly acts like the sky is falling.

Purpose driven and making a difference.

Good culture and a company focused on the future and the planet

good benefits, great people, some toxic leadership behaviors

It's great place to work

CEO is very transparent and communicates well and often

committed to sustainability and DEI

They are customer cecntric and care about their employees

Balance; understanding that employees are people who have families and are not 365/24 at the beckon call of the company; take a more moderate, middle road approach (diversity and inclusion efforts have swung too far to one side).

Recognizing a long term employee with great work ethic, production, and substantial proof of great customer service doesn't just suddenly become the plaque. Leaders create the norm. My leaders had no idea that guiding behaviors were for everyone - even the too rich white ones.

The pay and benefits are good, but is it worth it?

Highly competitive and rewards performance.

salary is good and incentive awards are acceptable

Prices the employee pays for family coverage are acceptable, however the coverage itself is inadequate. High deductible plans should be illegal. I'm still part of the pension, and am disappointed for the newer employees that it is no longer offered.

Flexibility and good options for 401k, roth, employee stock purchase, etc

Some are picked and groomed or REALLY good friends and supported beyond the scope of fair. Others work their butts off and men or envious white women will do everything to smear your name at the company and beyond - even after they return - the hell that never dies unless you go to court.

great committed people and very skilled and hard working

Our team is smart, curious, hard-working, and helpful. We have the best manager in the history of managers (super competent, focuses on accountability over blame and helps us improve rather than punishes us, and he's an amazing mentor, and hilarious). And we adore each other--nice chemistry.

They are willing to help each other, customers and the community

Too many meetings. Checking in every other week is taking away from my productivity. There's no respect for the experience that older employees have. Look at the high rate of long-term employees that are quitting. Follow up with those people. Why are they leaving?! Hostile work environment.

Busy doesn't mean productive. Helping and mentoring would be nice instead of the HR director watching people squirm and then say they need work on compromising.

The benefits are the only positive aspect.

People want to do good work for the most part, and there's real desire to improve the overall culture. Support for volunteerism is authentic.

It is diverse and it is inclusive

From the top down, managers and supervisors lack empathy. They see their employees as cogs in a machine--produce, produce, produce more, more, more with fewer employees.

the executives and leadership should hold themselves to the same standards they hold other employees to

Picture of my last department - I was criticized for not putting the in/out dots in the center of the square. I was told it made our group look sloppy. After two years my manager swore I couldn't do anything right; I reconciled monthly budgets correctly, including documenting budget season revisions

Got to meet lots of the team I work with

It was efficient and proceeded fairly quickly. The questions were well thought out.

Really give you time to ask questions and use more than one person to do the interview

i interviewed many years ago; the current process is slow but reasonable

Stop listening to others personal bias and look at a person from your own perspective and your own department agenda of what will create success. The need to like everyone and group think have got to go; along with busy and a messy desk are good.

Ability to make a difference in the lives of costumers and the communities we serve.

the coworkers in my team are fantastic

I get to do interesting work with smart people that I like.

Being able to help customers

The company has been around over 100 years and has never had a non-white person in C-Suite. Talk to ex-employees around Portland and you will hear nightmare HR director stories that they won in court. A 100 yrs of tendrils underneath the system would need to be weeded and monitored for defamation