Pros
Westinghouse is a company world renowned for recruiting and developing smart, energetic, innovative and hard working people. From its earliest days, the company has had a reputation for taking care of its people. Benefits, opportunity, development, accomplishment... All are words often associated with a career under the Big Blue W.
Cons
Westinghouse Nuclear is all that's left of what was once an empire of industry. No longer. Aside from poor business practices that led to the dismantling of George's creation in the 80's-90's, the worst thing that ever happened to WEC was being purchased by Toshiba. Operating under the shadow of a publicly traded and largely failing parent company, Westinghouse has been gutted, squeezed, torn and pushed to its breaking point. When I started with WEC, I was amazed at the culture. It was the first place I'd worked where everyone seemed happy. The nuclear renaissance had just begun, the new and opulent Cranberry HQ was opening and the future looked great. Then came the quake & the wave, plummeting natural gas prices and unstable world markets. Toshiba began experiencing corporate losses, and the squeeze at Westinghouse was on. First came the offer of voluntary separation packages then the news of involuntary separation. Layoffs have been the topic du jour for the last four years. What once was a jubilant atmosphere has become one of uncertainty, frustration and even anger. I'm on my way out the door now, and cannot wait to find myself in a company with more stability and a better corporate environment.
