DTE Energy reviews

Career advancement and salary increases can be a point of frustration. HR policies are restrictive and conservatively applied for the majority of people (common in regulated companies). Vague segmentation of work across the enterprise & a culture of "top-down leadership" tends to result in unnecessarily slow progress, low accountability at the mid-to-executive leadership level, and self-inflicted failures.

Recently it feels like executive management has stopped caring about the employees at all and the shareholders are obviously king. It has not always felt like this but it’s not fun right now. No base pay raises this year despite inflation (read: we all got massive effective paycuts) and virtually no hiring (though they love to market that “some hiring is approved!” HA) even though many groups are cripplingly understaffed as it is and the engineering workload on the electric side is projected to substantially increase because we can only afford to work 100% capital projects right now. More work without more people or pay, more more more more more until you’re burnt to a crisp. You gotta watch out for your own burnout here. Work life balance is impossible (see: understaffed) so you better love what you do otherwise there’s literally no reason to stick around especially because other utilities in the area will pay better with better benefits and better work life balance.