Calpine reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(445 total reviews)

Andrew Novotny/Thad Hill

91% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Calpine has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 445 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Calpine employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

445 reviews
3.0
Aug 24, 2015

Sourcing Intern

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great environment helpful co-workers good company reputation in the energy field

Cons

information gap between departments, makes data messy not the best training

5.0
Jul 19, 2015

Operator

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great Benifits, good paying, great work team, Safety is the core value and believe. Saftey is always first with company.

Cons

To hard to advance with calpine, All of the older employes push out the younger ones. Try to make raises based on wage instead of who is doing the work.

4.0
Jul 13, 2015

Calpine Corp. review

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They use clean energy to make power and aren't as vulnerable to oil prices. Locations throughout the country.

Cons

You work with a skeleton work force as management seemed to care more about MW/number of employees ratio being as high as possible.

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