PPL reviews

The new CEO is committing to too much without thinking about the implication it has on the employees. Buy a new company? Sure! But we'll have to support it with the already overwhelmed employees we already have. There is a culture of corporate bullying and people here are extremely unhappy. Many talented employees have left because of the abuse they've endured, and the leaders turn a blind eye and ignore all the red flags. Please invest in and appreciate your employees who give so much to this company. They are being bullied, harassed and treated awful within the walls of your org, how can you sleep at night knowing that? Change that ASAP or it will have lasting implications for your company.

If you are an IT professional that wants to always be satisfied with your work and always find a way to do things better and improve, an IT position at PPL will probably not be right for you. If you can look past constant frustrations, doing things that don't make sense, and not being listened to - and compartmentalize that to your 9 to 5, you can probably have an OK career here. There's also a chance you can land in a cushy role\group aligned with one of the leaders' pet projects that avoids these problems, but it's a roll of the dice. If you are in a role that gets stuck with 24/7 support responsibilities, you can expect to be called constantly at all hours, and any of your attempts to drive real root cause fixes will hit dead end after dead end. The organization is completely top-down and hierarchical, and you will find yourself working on things that make no sense simply because they are dictated by someone that can't be bothered to do due diligence and listen to their experts. Any attempts you make to sell your case for high-value work will be ignored - but not after you are gaslit into thinking someone is listening. After being ignored for years, you'll realize no one cares. The organization is completely fragmented and silo'ed, where it's survival mode for every manager and group. It doesn't take long for a manager to realize that putting up defenses and protecting your people is more prudent than even trying to work together with other teams. It's not uncommon for projects to take years, not be properly staffed, and end up causing more problems than they set out to solve. Languishing technologies will be left to rot and have the poor souls that support them stuck scrambling day after day to keep them running while shoehorning them into the flavor of the month mandates that come from the top down. It's a shame because this was once a pretty good place to work. Not without frustrations, but people tried to do their best and work together in a very conservative and slow moving industry. Unfortunately, that changed and doesn't seem to be reverting any time soon. Everyone I know that has left is way happier, that should say something.