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Southern California Edison

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Southern California Edison reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(1,762 total reviews)
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Steven Powell

81% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Southern California Edison has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,762 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there.

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2K reviews
1.0
Feb 14, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Employees are generally well paid and benefits are decent.

Cons

Apply your "values" and "code of conduct" equally. Favorite employees and ones that are related to management or who are in relationships with decision-makers should not be exempted. This is the perfect plan to lose credibility.

3.0
Feb 11, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great resources enable many opportunities. Other than how I was treated after the hire of new management that blatantly favored "their own" employees, SCE allowed me to make unprecedented breakthroughs in my line of work that are widely recognized by cybersecurity professionals, worldwide and for which opportunities I shall be eternally grateful. Unfortunately, executive management is so detached from any perception of key IT practices that they have little notion of proper IT management methods and no one in a subordinate position are incentivized to point out problems. The recent (since the deadly 2012 shootings at the IT facility) Executive Open Forums and similar initiatives may create a communications bridge between staff and management that should eventually reap positive results, particularly for IT.

Cons

Extraordinarily prone to cliquish management styles leading to crass favoritism and subsequent punishment of the unfavored. E.g., Several "Chairmen's Award" recipients violate company stated values of behavior completely beyond the view of executive management. Current practices do not acknowledge to possibility of, let alone detect nor deter, sociopathic personalities. Executive management perceives IT specialists as interchangeable with other non-IT roles. E.g., the stated policy for advancement has employees transferring to unrelated departments (i.e., utility industry 100 year traditional pre-IT "cross training" model) while IT specialists' career paths would not have them transferring even within IT. Executive management perceives IT specialists as commodities and have no awareness of any extraordinary employee accomplishments unless the employee is "favored" by middle management which typically doesn't happen, as lower management levels fear being outshined by subordinates.

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