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3.9

82% would recommend to a friend

(174 total reviews)

Elliot Mainzer

89% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

Bonneville Power has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 174 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bonneville Power 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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174 reviews
4.0
Nov 11, 2013

Solid Workplace

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great work/life balance and solid pay/benefits

Cons

Ability to move to other parts of BPA are strongly influenced by who you know rather than your skillset.

1.0
Sep 16, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is a cafeteria that normally has food that won't give you industrial bowel movements BPA is located on the light rail and two bus stops 10% of the air intake to the ventilation systems is fresh The colors of the walls are Government Beige and Brown Items on your desk are hardly ever stolen

Cons

BPA is ``modernizing`` it's office furniture, going from 5'8'' fabric cubicles to desk height partitions Contractors are treated very poorly and are frequently released for trivial and arbitrary reasons Contractors are given smaller cubicles then federal employees BPA's hiring practices are rife with cronyism, nepotism and favoritism (If you take a moment to search on DOE's web site, you will see the hot water BPA is currently in) BPA's hiring practices and procedures are un-equal across the agency Effort required to process work through change or task management is utterly useless and frivolous. Often this process is nothing but rubber stamped parroting of boiler plate documents No clear direction in management style or leadership Bad managers and federal employees are shuffled around and promoted vs being dealt with. Their incompetence is frequently rewarded Projects never really get finished, they are just re-named and re-budgeted Along with these projects, BPA is fond of re-organizing the pieces on the board.

1.0
Aug 4, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

steady employment,good working conditions,some locations in bpa seem to have decent job conditions while other locations are miserable to say the least

Cons

management is completely out of control.It appears if an employee is totally incapable of doing the job in the field they are promoted into management.

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