Lured in to make a difference, left because innovation is too expensive - Analyst Xcel Energy Employee Review

2.0
Jul 22, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay, luckily has decent work/life balance (only a few weekends and late nights over my tenure), decent people...

Cons

RTO really killed it for me but lack of community and lack of feeling like I belonged were too important to ignore. I came in hoping to make changes but t the red tape is as thick as the C-Suite's skulls. I just ended up going through through the motions here. I wasn't happy.

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5.0
Jun 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great, Lots of opportunity within,

Cons

You have to drive to downtown Denver

5.0
May 18, 2026
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Standard methods, cloud infrastructure, and reliance on in house staff over contractors makes it very easy to implement safe, fast, consistent changes. You will be valued as a human and you will have a voice within this company. You can make a career here. Your coworkers and immediate leadership are all talented and intelligent individuals who actually know how to do the same work you are doing.

Cons

AI rollout and unevenly applied hybrid work made things difficult for employees with disabilities and those that lived far from office who had traditionally worked remote or for tasks that do not lend themselves well to AI overhead

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