PacifiCorp reviews

2.8

47% would recommend to a friend

(373 total reviews)

Stefan Bird and Gary Hoogeveen

38% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

PacifiCorp has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 373 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The PacifiCorp employee rating is 23% below average for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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373 reviews
2.0
Feb 1, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A lot of opportunities and openings. Nice location: you can go to the Lloyd Center Mall to take a walk.

Cons

This company puts no value on the employees. They don't appreciate what the employees contribute and the corporate culture is to cut all the cost and pay as less as possible. Even though like 2017 is a pretty good year for its operation, almost the best in late 10 years, we still get only a portion of the committed bonus. This is really ridiculous because the CEO is just trying to show Warren Buffet that how much money he saved and earned. Some group's culture is old schools. People take lunch back to the desk even when they bought from outside, just because the manager/director does things like that. Very poor file management and data management. No one knows what previous employees' procedure and important data. The technology is in the 80s. Knowledge transfer is so rare and new employees are figuring things again and again. Because everybody is leaving and no one wants to establish. IT is outsourcing and internal IT is slow and weak. A lot of managers become their current positions not because that they did a great job and truly have the leadership, instead, it's just because again and again talented people left the company so they are the only ones that stay so there's the opportunity. And the reason that talented people left is that the company is cutting more and more on different budgets and bonuses/benefits. Now they are creating/changing some positions that have base pay only... And one of the worst I have never seen that the 401K company match portion would be returned if you did not work through 5 years. The return percentage is 20% for each year of service. I highly recommend people who want to enter the industry to apply for PGE instead of PacifiCorp. The company's strategy and culture have made themselves a greedy and ruthless management team.

3.0
Jan 16, 2018

Meh, keep looking - you could do better

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company is subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. So, this company is lean and mean with financial stability.

Cons

Most groups operate in their own silo. Bureaucracy or fear? There isn't much interaction/integration. Not much room for upward or lateral movement. Morale is low and is lower since 2015. Current CEO, Stefan Bird, is former executive with Koch Industries.

3.0
Dec 26, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

work life balance, Stable, Easy to excel with little effort as there is not much competition.

Cons

slow moving, IT has the potential to lead the business to conquer new frontiers, it either lacks that vision or it cannot sell that vision effectively. Choices in IT is not driven by search for creative people but it seems to be just political.

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