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Bonneville Power reviews

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
2.0
Jan 10, 2012

a very corrupt federal agency

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

this used to be a good place to work.it has continued in a down hill slide for the last 10 years.it is still a workplace where you can make a fair wage with job security.the work is still important enough to make it interesting.if left alone to do your job it can be a great place to work.

Cons

lower and middle managers are severly untrained and unwilling to do their job.for the most part the only people willing to apply for lower management positions are the employees that can not do their jobs in the field.the politics in this company are detroying the moral of the work force.

4.0
Jul 18, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Bonneville provides a great deal of training and support for career growth. The benefits are top notch and the work environment is pleasant.

Cons

The organization tends to move at a slow pace and the work is not very exciting. It is highly bureaucratic and hierarchical.

1.0
Jul 16, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are some great people and groups within BPA. It has amenities such as a gym, day care, and the work can be challenging. You are also located in Portland Oregon which is a great place to enjoy the outdoors.

Cons

Keep in mind that this is a big place, and as the head union person said there are some and bad neighborhoods. Another human resource specialist said some groups do not even talk to each other. Advice to potential employees, you are taking a gamble. Here are the trouble spots: Management (all levels) use physiological harassment or bulling to go after troublesome employees. They have a physiologist on staff, so they are good. What happened to the Hippocratic oath, I do not know, also is this what tax payers really want from the federal government. Managers delve into people's personal lives. When I left a senior manager was talking with an employee about who was dating another employee in an open cubicle. I heard many things that were best left unsaid by managers. The ability to deal with complexity is poor, they make efforts but fail due to a lack of vision and push to tackle the problem. Too many older employees who benefit from the status quo. The downside of not dealing with complexity is that it takes years for a new employee to get up to speed, the problems get shaded because too few employees really understand what is going on, and have a tendency to wing it and hope for the best.

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