Southern Company reviews

I left about a year ago and it came down to just feeling stifled in my job. There was a hiring freeze and "cost containment" i.e no training budget. I wasn't really feeling challenged in my job and my skills were getting stale. Combine that with the fact that pay is just perfectly average. Promotions are very hard to come by, and you get caught up in the HR grinder that happens at many huge companies. You have no idea if you are doing what you need to do to advance or not. Looking back, leaving was the right decision.

Unfortunately, the culture is more about who you know rather than what you know. There are many professionals holding positions where they are unqualified and inexperienced. In many situations people are promoted or 're-orged' into higher positions due to their relationships with management. It is quite common to have a supervisor or manager that is more skilled on self-promotion and protecting their positions rather than the work itself. Promotion, recognition, and evaluations are rated subjectively. Retaliation is an art. Best advice, keep all personal opinions to oneself and make friends with people outside of the company.