Xcel Energy Employee Reviews
Out of 100 Xcel Energy employee reviews, 61% were positive. The remaining 39% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Xcel Energy improve their work culture.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Need to manage talent and hold employees accountable who do not perform (presence and understand what their role is and contribute).
Caring about employees and what they are going through
The leadership team is disconnected from the everyday operations at tbe sites
Honesty, integrity, and a servant leadership attitude would be a good start. The current team is comprised of self absorbed individuals that are not capable of true leadership. Nepotism and cronyism drive all hiring decisions, and the result is incompetence at every level.
Think about contributing to the employees and community you serve. They are not there to server your ego and line your pockets.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
I want to be rewarded and compensated for my work and expertise. All hiring and compensation decisions at Xcel are based on who you know rather than what you know and accomplish.
Fair pay for market; no more "duties as assigned"
I hold a contractor position and they refuse to do contract to hire so I just get the same subpar contract renewed after a year.
Salary could be higher; while I have earned beyond my target bonus, my annual raise was only 3%. Doesn't seem like cost of living is taken into account in different markets.
More than a 1% raise after 15 months at the company. A bonus half as large as expected.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Respect and treating females equally.
great group of people to work with
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
There needs to be some employees removed.
New leadership team and a true commitment to our values.
The values and principles are there. Executives need to start showing they understand them. For example, Safety Always is a slogan, unless you don't want to get COVID, then it's just what the legal team advises has to be said.
Need managers who have some idea of what we do out in the field, not just sit behind there computer screen all day. On a major problem it would be nice if they would come an maybe bring water or coffee, in the dead of winter
get more user friendly software
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Hiring decisions should be based on competence. Hiring managers openly admit to trying to hire famil members diring interviews. The interview process at Xcel is a sham. They make hiring decisions based on who you know rather than how well you interview or any other objective measure of skill.
They ask the same questions for every interview, but they gage whether you do the S.T.A.R method of answering the questions to be way more important that the actual answer or if the response answers the question at all.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Utilty rates are currently high. We also have an unnecessary expense of renting office space in downtown locations. Considering those expenses are covered by utility rates, that coils help decrease them.
Leadership lacks integrity and is not committed to being a trustworthy provider of low cost energy. We need new leadrrship with a commitment to our values and delivering value to our customers.
When you give the CEO a 26% raise and also raise the rates of your customers by 20% the hypocrisy is almost comical. If customers had another alternative they would change service in a minute. Start by thinking about how actions match the mission.
Contract engineers and managers promised customers one thing then I am not able to deliver because it violent or Standard Manual.
Way too much 'who you know' to get promoted. HR is a complete disaster and can't make a decision to save their lives.
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