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Opower

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Good PR. Duplicitous business practices - Anonymous employee Opower Employee Review

2.0
Apr 10, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Good PR EE story -Office shuts down last week of the year -Decent benefits -That's about it

Cons

-The utility industry is too slow to adopt anything -Enshrines duplicitous business practices to employees and its customers -Oversells snake oil and advocates trickery or cloudy language to win a major deal -Has been selling the same products for the last four years without much innovation -Death by a million slides in every internal and external meeting -Engineering bares brunt of suffering the delivery consequences -Excessive title inflation--everyone is a Manager, Director, VP -Inexperienced management team ran by a good old B-school boys club -Poor leadership with lack of long term vision and execution plan -A promotion in job title is insufficient for career development -No 401K matching and even worse equity -Run for your life unless you like office politics -Too many managerial Type-A talkers and not enough doers

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