Westinghouse reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,378 total reviews)
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Patrick Fragman

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
Mar 29, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Absolutely none. But need to enter 5 words in this field.

Cons

-Buy a construction company and then exit the construction business? Did anyone actually evaluate the financials of this decision? CHECK? -corrupt hiring practices: post jobs for hours or a day or don't post jobs at all! and fill with a person that will just listen to whatever the VP/director wants them to do so that the VP/director does not feel threatened? Ask HR about this practice and just be told "yeah we have room to improve"? CHECK -Structure the company so that first line people managers are not responsible for actually making money for the company? First line people managers will make up tasks to show their people are busy or justify hiring an additional unnecessary person? Or try to show they have a lot of work to do to redo a new plants calculation 20 times over again for no reason or a reason that could be written off? CHECK -promote people to Director or Manager roles that have no knowledge or education in the groups they are managing? DOUBLE CHECK -Employ more managers and directors than are really necessary and do not hold them accountable for actually making money for the company. Call them people managers and just make them check timesheets, training status, and badge in/out of the building times? CHECK -Employ useless meaningless positions where you are graded on walking around and asking people the status of their work products then reporting this status to 4-5 different people throughout the day, like being a human spreadsheet? CHECK -Foster condescending senior/middle/first line management that provides no contributions towards progress, asks questions to promote failure/roadblocks? -Appoint people that used to be managers to fellow engineer positions that do not have sufficient technical background? CHECK -declare bankruptcy, remove pension, merit pay increases? CHECK

1.0
Jan 8, 2017

Lead Analyst

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Employees are great and amazing to work with. Hard workers and good dedicated personalities.

Cons

Employee dedication is taken advantage of. You are largely ignored if you have views on improvements, despite copious amounts of fake "improvement initiatives." Executive management hired by current CEO is made up of just bad people in general. Their views on life are skewed, and they are just mean and nasty to those who work for them. Absokutley zero work and life balance. Your time is not your own. You WILL be working weekends and 10 hour days no matter what position you are in. The future of this industry is also bleak so that doesnt help the situation.

1.0
Aug 25, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None. Some people who miraculously remain positive in the hostile and toxic environment are pretty great.

Cons

Workload is impossible to manage, even working 10-12 hour days goes unrecognized and expected. Performance review causes major competition amongst teams and is unfair. People are treated terrible by managers and blown off by senior level.

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