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So much has changed - Anonymous employee Opower Employee Review

2.0
Dec 17, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

7 months ago I would have given a 5 star review, now ..... 1. Highly motivated people. 2. Culture was once amazing, though declining a lot. 3. Excellent growth and learning opportunities in a short time span. 4. Great friendships 5. Amazing Holiday party, perks, office events, off sites, etc. 6. Investing some time here can really open up some amazing opportunities elsewhere As bad as some things have gotten, Opower still has a better culture and mission than 99% of DC companies.

Cons

1. Pay starts out high for inexperienced hires, quickly begins to seem low. Pay should be higher outside of R&D org. 2. Some roles in client success become monotonous and repetitive. 3. A lot of over reacting drama in the client success organization. 4. Career opportunities and raises slimming fast in client success. 5. Company culture has declined rapidly, a few mishires, and poor leadership has contributed to this. 6. many people take themselves too seriously and give the allusion of doing more work than they do. 7. certain orgs have a gossip problem 8. no 401k matching

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5.0
Aug 30, 2018
Recommend
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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
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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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