great team to work with, good pay and benefits - Principal Engineer Xcel Energy Employee Review

5.0
Feb 4, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

A lot of freedom as an engineer to get an assignment, do the assignment and work with many different people from Plant operators, purchasers, vendors, contactors and get projects started and completed. The boss was excellent in many ways. He let you be the engineer and get your job complete. A lot of respect is given you at Xcel Energy.

Cons

The bean counters and left wing freaks up in Minnesota are constantly announcing more little tedious tasks for us engineers to do so they can MONITOR the engineers more closely. But, this hardly out weighs the benefits.

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5.0
Jun 15, 2026
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Pros

Great, Lots of opportunity within,

Cons

You have to drive to downtown Denver

4.0
Jul 5, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Work-life balance, okay benefits, and cemented impact on the community

Cons

Because the company has a bottom line, promotional paths aren't really a thing beyond individual contributor to manager. I don't know what the next level up would be besides that.

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