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Really happy I joined OPOWER - Anonymous employee Opower Employee Review

5.0
Nov 20, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great work / life balance. Ability to work from home as needed. - Collaborative and fun environment that fosters continuous learning and improvement. - Mission critical problems with a real world impact. - Compensation and benefits are slightly above market rate. Base salary, RSU's, commute and gym membership bonus. - New San Francisco Office planned for April 2015. From what we have seen and heard, it's amazing. - Stock has remained stable and we have had three excellent quarters–beating Wall Street expectations, despite fluctuations in the market.

Cons

- Some small changes to Executive Team. There are a few critical hires that are needed in 2015 to help us expand the market opportunity. - Recently took away one floating holiday and forced O's to take MLK day as a paid holiday. Understandable, but would have been nice to have an employee vote in this, or to be given back a floater. - RSU's do not commence on start date, but begin each quarter during Executive meetings (for approval of shares). This means your shares will not start vesting until a scheduled date (Feb 18th, May 18th, Aug 18th, Nov 18th).

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Opower Response
11y
Wooooo-hooo! What a fantastic review to receive. Also, we'll be sure to voice your feedback to the people team and senior management about floating holidays and RSUs. Your insight is invaluable!

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5.0
Aug 30, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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