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Great reimbursement, outages are difficult - Design Engineer Southern Company Employee Review

5.0
Apr 30, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Pay for the area is great Ability to move up is great If you take responsibility for things, you will find success Culture of safety is critical and embraced 100%

Cons

Outages are unnecessarily hard. Most of the plant is unionized, and so they drive the non-union engineers quite hard with 12 hour shifts during outages. Worst for me was 23 straight 12-14 hr midnights to do a design that wasn't implemented. Management tries to keep this impact to a minimum, but functionally they couldn't keep enough engineers around to handle everything.

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5.0
Jul 6, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Pros

they have a good 401k match

Cons

unpaid mandatory time off for site maintenance

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