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      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

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      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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      1K reviews
      1.0
      May 26, 2016

      Communication

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Cafeteria (the food is good), gym, building location (Pittsburgh area), parking is free, flex time, some managers, paid holidays, three weeks of vacation the first full year

      Cons

      Management consistently preaches open communication yet doesn't do the same themselves. Employees getting walked out of the building, yet the work load is very high and management doesn't acknowledge. Management wants more done with less and less. Constant shifts in organizational structure. Focus is staying on sidewalks and using stair handrails, rather than providing engineers what they need to get work completed. Engineers are using pens from hotels because they don't buy any for them to use.

      3.0
      May 10, 2016

      Poor Executive Leadership, but with Perks

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Employer-match 401k, medical, dental, and vision benefits, flex-time, good co-workers and mid-level managers/directors

      Cons

      Poor executive level leadership - there is no walking the talk here. Inability to view employees as human beings, i.e. poor work-life balance. Focus is on the ridiculous - new signage! sidewalk saftey! - versus helping emoyees feel valued.

      1.0
      Jan 2, 2016

      Management not ethically-minded

      Consulting engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I've been here long enough to see good times and bad times come and go over decades. It has never been this scary because of who is steering the ship at all levels of management. Kids, this place is great if you like to be walked all over by your first line manager. They blame it on upper management as an excuse but really they just have zero guts to push back against they're immediate management. Middle management isn't managing well enough because they don't know anything about the product or people they manage so shouldn't speak with any amount of confidence on how to improve the company but do anyway. They don't know anything about the product or people they manage because the company culture isn't focused on technical expertise and rather all about not showing up in a red highlighted cell on a spreadsheet saying they're late on submitting some administrative detail. If you wonder why that is it's because that is all they've ever done here. If you enjoy the feeling of being talked down to while you carry the dead weight of Westinghouse management on your back, come be an engineer here.

      Cons

      Management is NOT qualified to manage anyone or anything at this level. These folks are really out of touch because they just don't have the experience needed. You'd be hard pressed to find a manager that has actually done any design work, site installation, customer facing services, assembly technician, buying, or even drafting. They're all ex-project managers proficient in very basic Microsoft Excel skills, minimally capable of organizing meeting and emails that talk big-picture stuff and dress really nice. To make things worse, every engineer is working for 4+ managers at various levels, 2-3 project managers, and essentially reports to anywhere from 2-50 other operations people who are demanding time and effort all at once. The company is 99% saturated with non-knowledge workers redundantly managing people and over complicated and drawn out processes with too much extra non-value added side work.

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