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Opower

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Pay Close Attention - Anonymous employee Opower Employee Review

1.0
Apr 16, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the people working here are smart, helpful, and wonderful to work with. The biweekly massages are great and yoga classes. The lax WFH policy is awesome. As for food and a gym subsidy, most tech companies offer them. So that may be a perk, if you never worked in tech.

Cons

The management team needs an overhaul. We have a lot of terrible managers that hurt the teams, more than help. 20% of the people managers are actually good. The rest are terrible. The CEO has a wonderful way of shrouding problems. The company will switch to unlimited PTO and say "we are not taking away your PTO." However, we know that switching from accrued was to clear the books of debt. Be honest. The pay is low. When friends, from other tech companies, hear how much you are paid, their response is to offer you a job or tell you to get out of such a bad relationship. They will not tell you much about how they arrived at their numbers either. If you ask HR, they will state that they only share it with Director level people and when you ask a Director, they will tell you to go to HR. This lack of transparency is smart because they can state that "we are so proud to say that men and women are paid equally [low]." The company misleads with pictures of the company and culture that is much different from reality. Those happy people, they just found out that they are leaving. Those dogs, they do not exist in the SF office because we used our lawyers to look over how to short change our employees, instead of reading a rental agreement that states "no dogs." We are losing many good people. We may have more layoffs again.

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Opower Response
10y
We can’t agree more with your point about the employees at Opower being our best asset. With regards to compensation, we work hard to ensure that pay is fair and regularly benchmark salaries to industry standards. We’re proud to offer competitive salaries at all levels, but if you talk to anyone who works at Opower, they’ll tell you they are really here because we’re a mission-driven company with talented and passionate people, unique benefits, and significant internal mobility and advancement opportunities. Our Oployees create a welcoming community where good ideas thrive, no matter where they come from.

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5.0
Aug 30, 2018
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Pros

Everyone was friendly to work with. Surprisingly well run as a company.

Cons

Not sure how their culture has changed after being acquired by Oracle. Betting it was for the worse.

5.0
Feb 3, 2016
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Pros

Every day at Opower was inspiring - the people are smart, new ideas are always being brought to the table, and everyone is motivated to do their best work because the company is doing good things for the world. People take each other seriously at work but also have so much in common that you end up with many friends outside of the office, and those relationships range across all levels - I count my old manager as one of my closest friends and will always turn to some of the company's senior leadership for life and career advice.

Cons

Though things settled down a bit post-IPO, I'd still say work/life balance is tough at Opower. People work hard because they love what they do, but they're still working really, really hard. Also, the transition from one primary product line to multiple product lines has been rocky, particularly as oil prices have been tanking and screwing with the entire industry. As the energy world settles out so too will Opower, as long as they solidify their newer products.

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Opower Response
10y
Thanks for your review and for being part of the Opower family for over 3 years!
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