Bloom Energy reviews

3.2

57% would recommend to a friend

(457 total reviews)
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KR Sridhar

62% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Bloom Energy has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 457 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bloom Energy 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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457 reviews
2.0
Sep 23, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Hard working, dedicated and world class talent in many areas, such as engineering. Good benefits and PTO.

Cons

Management - particularly in certain critical areas of engineering is extremely poor, full on personal vendettas, back stabbing and petty drama. Priorities shift day to day resulting in a ridiculous waste of money, time and resources, and then underlings have to take the blame and work 15 h days to make up for the mess that VP's and managers caused in the first place. Don't even try to point out whether a project has flaws - depending on the manager, you can even get fired, or at least have a very bad review coming your way. I personally think that CEO is overrated, and very unfocused in creating a consistent vision for the company. I believe that he has drank to much of his own Kool-aid as a visionary that will change the world, when in fact, this technology relies in NG, that is extracted via fracking, an extremely polluting process. So a lot of green-washing to say the least. Also, there are way too many managers and VP's, as positions were created when hot hires requested their buddy, golf pal or neighbor to join as well as a condition to switch jobs to BE. Pay is low, considering that poor project planning results in 12+h/days. High stress, poor communication, non-existent training for new employees. Avoid!

1.0
Aug 23, 2013

Venomous Company

Recommend
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Pros

1. Hard working employees and contractors (18+ hours per day)

Cons

Leadership: 1. Nepotism and preferential treatment of Engineering to the exclusion of all other teams 2. God-complex of engineering to the point of infallibility 3. Darwinian culture and values 4. Prevaricators 5. Intellectual Elitism/bullying

1.0
Jul 26, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Kool-Aid tastes good at first. If you begin to adopt underhanded ways to sabotage your fellow co-workers like I did you will be promoted. People outside of the company drank the 60 minutes Kool-Aid too, and Bloom on a resume has some benefit, deserved or not. The company seems to be well-positioned politically, which may prevent the company from outright crashing. For getting ahead: information hoarding works, badmouthing and exploiting your fellow employee works, character assassination too. Once you realize this is how it is run from the top, you can align your values accordingly and advance. You can spend your time on this approach for success and let others worry about the "work".

Cons

The bad guys are running the show here. The Green Tech facade is a crock, these are natural gas generators and far from exotic. The culture within is rotten to the core, exhibiting toxic behavior indicative of companies far older and longer corrupt. The pay is well below industry standard, exploiting employee's belief they are 'contributing to the world'. Employees in India are also payed below industry standard, which is completely unnecessary as they work for a fraction of the salary of US employees. Nepotism and general favoritism is rampant too, no surprise.

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