Franklin Energy reviews

- You're not really an energy engineer - you're really more of a staff assistant who reviews other people's stuff for utility rebates. You don't actually engineer anything, so if you have an engineering degree, this job is a good way to waste it. Do yourself a favor and find a design engineering job, unless this kind of thing is your jam. - Career advancement in the company is problematic. You gain no additional engineering experience to even help you advance. You pretty much already need to be an experienced engineer from a different field to get any elevated positions within the company, or apply for an internal management position. Never expect to get your PE license here, especially if you're a NY resident. Some people I've worked with who were promoted to a higher position were not promoted based on merit - it was more of a way to get them to participate in a program startup that would've been otherwise an undesirable endeavor. - As family-oriented as the pros make this company sound, the company was less so before the pandemic hit, where it was a struggle to be allowed to work from home for a few hours due to appointments for the wife and kids, or getting PTO for moving your home or have a baby (the company doesn't seem to understand these are life-changing events and PTO/personal time is necessary to work them out). - The company would rather work people to death (45+ hours over multiple consecutive weeks) and provide subpar customer service than properly hire staff to meet utility program needs, causing both an internal brain drain and loss of utility contracts due to lousy performance. Additionally, there is no extra compensation for salaried staff for working such extreme hours - no extra time off, money, nothing. They say they care a lot about the mental health of their employees, yet they do nothing to actually help it other than provide three free counseling sessions through SupportLinc.

Company – The company head is a good person with a great head on his shoulders that had a lovely vision but with an unfortunate management team that has ruined the company reputation. The company overall has no real path on where they are headed. They have lofty goals for growth but no plan on how to get there. To simplify how things have been running, they apply for any RFP with any program, no matter what the program goal and profess the capability to complete it despite a complete lack of resources or technology to do so. Clients are often led to believe certain technology can be created, and then the managers work people to the bone to give the least expectations to the client because they don’t have the resources to deliver what they state. Management – Given the overall company dynamic of “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks,” the management team has taken to creating unattainable goals for their direct reports and criticizing them for working less than 60-hour weeks. Everyone is working on multiple projects instead of what they are hired on for and often have no expertise in the extra areas they end up overseeing. Management themselves is comprised of employees whose main bragging point is that they were hire no. XXX for the company and have been around long enough to rise without the background or know-how to run a program. HR – Given the complete lack of company foresight, HR has all but given up. Their only goal is to protect the company image wherever possible. They do not assist with any complaints coming up to them unless it comes from management. If someone is put on a corrective action or performance plan, none of the negative comments from the manager are reviewed by HR and are taken at face value. This has given many management employees run of the company to harass whomever they choose without any repercussions and no follow up by HR to protect anyone under them. There is also no promotion path for any role because they just dole out whatever title they need at the time for new positions.