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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3.0
Mar 28, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Some groups have telework or alternative work schedules. Nice facility with onsite cafeteria, gym, dry cleaning and day care. Conveniently located at the junction of 2 freeways.

Cons

Poor senior management doesn't address poor middle management, which in turn doesn't address poor employees. Good employees are left to do their lazy coworkers' and inept boss' jobs for them for no extra pay or recognition. Constant stealth layoffs...typically, of the people who actually did the work. No bonuses, and pay increases are as minimal as they are rare. You're expected to work long hours physically on site--which even the onsite daycare doesn't support, so good luck if you're a working parent. When asked about poor morale, the CEO actually wrote in his blog that poor morale was the employees' fault, not the management's. Parent company's well publicized accounting scandals combined with few new plant orders cause the long term outlook to be questionable at best.

1.0
Feb 14, 2017

$6.3B reasons to get real...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Superb technology. World-class employees - at the working level.

Cons

Senior management has completely ruined employee commitment, morale, innovation, pride, and most importantly - trust. Employee trust has been completely, and irrevocably, broken. In the wake of the latest financial crisis, it comes as no surprise that, as reported in the popular press and as further reported by Toshiba in its 3rd quarter financial reporting extension application, a whistle blower has come forward to highlight the "inappropriate pressure" exerted by the Senior Management team which explicitly violated the corporate governance requirements. This company is run by Executives who are no better than street thugs. The culture at Westinghouse is so incredibly "hushed", muted, and otherwise "chilled" by Senior Management, that it is widely known that the quickest way out of the building is to disagree (even professionally) with a member of the Senior Management team. A "hushed" culture is a great foundation for a company charged with the responsibility of building NUCLEAR reactors.

2.0
Aug 4, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

-- Engineers in the trenches do the right thing, in spite of extenuating circumstances. Intelligent, hard-working, and skilled co-workers. -- Involvement in the completion of nuclear power plants that are highly significant for the countries in which they are being built. Unfortunately, the U.S. domestic projects are slowly being scrapped, and the possibility of new projects in UK / India stymied. -- The truly unique and innovative AP1000 Pressurized Water Reactor design -- Benefits were decent but salaries are no longer competitive, due to no pay raises and extremely limited promotions.

Cons

-- Incompetent upper level management drove this company into the ground. Ex-CEO Danny Roderick & Co. never took financial culpability for their actions. Instead, Roderick made $19 million. Mark Murano was, for some unknown reason, paid $2 million to stay at Westinghouse and made COO (he spent a whole meeting telling us about what a difficult decision that was for him to make - oversized ego) -- The annual review system is arcane and wasted, requiring direct managers to give out a certain % of bad reviews every year. This approach is proven to lead to a lack of teamwork and productivity. Why work hard when the majority of your group is destined for a 3-out-of-5 stars? -- July 31st, 2017 - 7% layoffs across the company were announced. This percentage will increase, with the decision on the same day to halt construction on V.C. Summer plant in South Carolina. The layoffs are being performed in the most disrespectful way possible - professionals come to work and - surprise! - their badge just doesn't work anymore. No severance pay, since the company re-wrote their involuntary separation plan to state that the bankruptcy voids any severance pay.

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