DTE Energy reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(914 total reviews)

Joi Harris

80% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

DTE Energy has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 914 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The DTE 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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914 reviews
1.0
Dec 29, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

One of the few companies in Michigan not doing massive layoffs compulsive gamblers will enjoy being right next to the MGM casino

Cons

ZERO advancement unless you happen to be in one of the little cliques. 20+ years in the exact same position is common. Many people are vastly overworked and all the execs want to do is "cut cost" more. Management deliberately forces 50% turnover in contractors each year and treats them like dirt, so there is no knowledge transfer in many critical systems.

2.0
Dec 27, 2008

Buy a big generator...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

For the most part, job security is good. Benefits are good, but not what they were 10 years ago. Pay is very good, at least in the plants. The people I work with are great.

Cons

Predatory attendance policy, especially for shift workers. If you miss 3 days in a year, a fourth gets you a letter. Each time you are off after that, you get another letter. They stay in your file for 9-12 months, if you get to the 4th, you're out. Senior Management cuts repair and outage budgets to the bone, even on equipment that is well past "end of life". Most of our tradespeople are within 10 years of retirement, and we have half the number of journeymen we had 10 years ago. Even when we get the money and parts to fix something, we no longer have enough people to get it fixed in a timely manner. Senior Management awards themselves huge bonuses, stock awards, and pay increases, while the message they send us is that we should do more with less. They built a multi million dollar reflecting pool at the 3 office buildings they have downtown, now known as 1 Energy Plaza, formerly 2000 2nd Ave, Detroit, MI. At the same time, they discontinued the profit sharing for represented employees, the ones that make the power, and get it to our customers, and cut a periodic outage on a generating unit back 80% on time and money. Upper mismanagement are looting the company, and inventing executive jobs for their friends. The only concern downtown is what did the stock price do today, and how much money did we make.

3.0
Nov 19, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Fairly stable place for employment, moderately flexible, free parking, management has integrity, interesting things going on in the company related to renewable energy

Cons

Distribution of work is not balanced, some employees are bored, some are overworked. Lack of career advancement opportunities. You can get stuck in the same job for 30 years and then they will promote from the outside. Older workforce. Low employee engagement scores. Low morale.

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