Westinghouse reviews

3.7

73% would recommend to a friend

(1,379 total reviews)
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75% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

Westinghouse has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,379 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
Oct 5, 2016

Program Manager

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Pros

Nice building and a fitness center. Bright, clean work environment.

Cons

Senior leadership is completely out of touch. Mandatory overtime with virtually half pay. Benefits continue to be cut. Janitorial services are being reduced by 40%. (BIG savings here.) Senior Management has money to hold incredibly large management meetings in the US, Europe, and Asia........

1.0
Jul 8, 2016

Sad, Sorry Excuse for a 100+ Year Old Company

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Pros

-you will learn how to navigate the most toxic culture and office politics you have ever seen -you will learn how to fight for benefits the company promised and then tries to renege on -you will learn to tape record conversations to CYA -you will deal with coworkers who think not taking a sick day in 14 years and arrival at work at 5AM is a marketable skill

Cons

-working at this company sounds good, but because the company is constantly in turmoil/crisis/restructure mode, you will never complete any projects to add to your own resume -promotion process is scarily opaque and secretive even when you have met all the criteria for promotion and have good performance ratings. somehow people you have trained as interns can be at a higher pay band than you are. -petty coworkers/managers who don't develop themselves are too scared to share information for fear of being replaced -repetitive busy work: no one really does any engineering, years of this will make you unemployable without trying really hard to sell whatever silly, paper pushing function you previously had at Westinghouse -new projects are always around the corner with locations in unstable, poor regions of the world, said projects never actually materialize in the form of cash flow into the company -no innovation/new designs to roll out since the AP1000 technology was sold/stolen by the Chinese -very easy to get pigeonholed into a piddly function because mobility throughout the organization is dependent upon (can be stunted by) your managers approval. you will then be laid off after being determined redundant even though you have a broad skill set and utility in other areas of the company which are also doing rather poorly based on the reviews here -professional development makes people targets for removal because managers are old, close to retirement and indifferent to actual completion of projects, managers are the same people who built previous projects that went over budget and 10 years behind schedule e.g. Vogtle 1&2

1.0
Apr 13, 2016

It sucks

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Pros

Cafeteria has great made to order choices for breakfast, good salad bar, deli with many choices, Japanese stir fry, and Starbucks coffee.

Cons

There are many but some organizations are very cliquey and run by control freaks who only care about their own position versus working as a team and developing new employees.

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