Westinghouse reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,378 total reviews)
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74% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Westinghouse has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,378 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Westinghouse employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Jan 7, 2017
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Pros

In my position, I am able to perform technically interesting and challenging work on a daily basis. I am fortunate in that I can do work that is consistently first of a kind - this keeps me interested even though most other aspects of the job are negative.

Cons

I've been with Westinghouse for a very long time - it has always had extremely poor management. I was with the company as it imploded in the mid to late 90s and what is happening now is very similar, in my opinion, to what occurred during that time. Unfortunately, the current management may 'win' for the worst I have experienced. I somehow made it through all of the massive layoffs and business unit sell offs in the 90s. I don't think the Westinghouse nuclear business has truly been financially healthly since even before that time but, like me, they have somehow managed to survive. It's not clear to me that the company will make it through this latest financial fiasco. I questioned Toshiba's business prowess when they paid $5.4B for us - clearly now an extremely poor business decision on their part (Toshiba wrote off $2.4B of that purchase price in 2015 I believe). It is somewhat difficult to know how Westinghouse has truly financially performed since that purchase (since we are no longer on the stock exchange, any financial numbers we see are rather limited and are presented to us by management). Because of my distrust of the management, I don't have much faith in the limited numbers they have shown us. I was always personally quite certain that we would see large financial losses with the new builds in China and the US - we still do not know the extent of those losses. I am equally certain that as those units start up, there will be significant issues which will further have major negative financial impact. I did not forsee the Toshiba accounting scandal or this CB&I mess. To summarize, I believe 2017-2018 will be disastrous years financially - I am not certain how we will survive.

1.0
Oct 9, 2016
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Pros

My desk chair swivels. A few good coworkers. Free toilet paper (for now). Starbucks in the cafeteria. Nice big windows s let in a lot of natural light. Paychecks cash.

Cons

No training; fear culture regarding hours in the building and parking lot rules; employees treated like kindergarteners instead of professionals; No advancement unless you are hand picked; management sends out dumb-down emails using football analogies so us lowly employees can understand. The "safety" culture is so over done they lose sight of what we're trying to accomplish. Honestly, in my 20 yrs of working, this place is the worst. And I'm not even disgruntled. Have to bring your own Kleenex and they cut janitorial services to save money. How hard pressed is this place if we can't even empty the trash.

2.0
Apr 25, 2016

RUN

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Pros

5 years ago, it was a nice company.

Cons

I somehow lost my health insurance and have been with the company SEVEN YEARS! Then, *poof* they're gone because I was marked as an intern all of a sudden. There are odd things going on behind the scenes here. Silent dismantling of the Union No chance to advance Layoffs are quarterly and swept under the carpet

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