Pros
The job pays relatively well for the area
Cons
The location of the plant is awful. It is tucked away in a disgusting little town in central Arkansas, at least an hour from the nearest decent place to live. There is no real career for Engineers here. Sure, there's a progression on paper, but Engineering management will find any reason to prevent you from promotion. Managers outside of your chain of management, and even outside of your department have a say in your performance reviews, and will campaign to give you a bad review or prevent your promotion. Engineering morale is low as a whole. The company has made it nearly impossible to perform the job well. Despite the overwhelming workload, Entergy is looking to cut positions to get staffing levels similar to industry leaders, despite not having implemented the upgrades necessary to do so. Entergy is a serial offender of promoting a director's favorite person into supervision instead of promoting the correct person for the job. This leads to endless confrontations with incompetent yet power hungry supervisors that can also negatively impact your performance reviews. Despite clear company policy supporting internal transfers, there are unwritten rules management uses to block employees from transferring to other departments, so it is difficult at best to move around in the company when you end up in a bad situation. Moving up into management and into corporate roles is strictly a function of whether you're friends with the powers that be, without any regard for capability or getting the correct person in the role.
