American Water reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(617 total reviews)

John Griffith

65% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

American Water has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 617 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The American Water employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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617 reviews
1.0
Nov 30, 2015

Hated Working here

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good salary and most of the employees are very friendly.

Cons

Everything Else, Hours are long and there is a lot of pressure for call times being low.

1.0
Nov 19, 2015

Financial Anayst

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent pay and benefits, that's about it!

Cons

Total lack of communication at all levels. Tremendous amount of duplication of work as a result of lack of communication. Total lack of leadership at all levels. Here's my direct feedback about the manager I worked for in Greenwood, IN. He took a 3 hour lunch every day while the team was working 60 to 70 hour week, weeknights and weekends. He took credit for others work. He lacked any skill in management, leadership, direction, or expertise. He was totally removed from our everyday tasks and operation. He lacked any systematic or procedure skills. He lacked any people skills. He never generated any original thought, everything was generated from the team. He never performed any real work, in almost one year of being there, I never saw a single spreadsheet that he generated. He spoke negatively of all team members and people across the whole organization. He spoke down to everybody as if he was better than all of them.

3.0
Nov 16, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

As a utility company there is very little fear of being laid-off or hours reduced

Cons

Frustrating to work for company that preaches customer service but too worried about $$$ to follow through

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