Xcel Energy reviews

3.3

53% would recommend to a friend

(1,072 total reviews)
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Bob Frenzel

30% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Xcel Energy has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,072 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Xcel Energy 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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4.0
Dec 16, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Job stablility - no ups & downs like most companies, layoffs are rare. Great benefits including a pension.

Cons

Slow, not a lot of advancement opportunities. Just wait for someone to retire and hope you can move into their position. Nothing changes - my group had been doing the same thing with minimal changes for over 20 years.

3.0
Oct 11, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Competive benefit package that comes with large employer

Cons

Large organization that could be too slow to respond and react. Easy to get pigeon hole, doing same thing.

3.0
Sep 30, 2012

Interesting culture,.... Not impressed

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Stability, benefits, pay is comparable to market rates, great office location, break room goodies are plentiful, on site exercise facility and on site cafeteria. It's like a government job. You just have one job to do,.... which is outlined in your position title. You, rarely, do work outside of that title. You really don't have to go out of your way to look like a top performer. Just work on projects that have exposure and take all the credit for the successes.

Cons

The culture is weird to say the least. People are nice but in a cautious way, almost fake and forced. Also some of the younger folk who have never worked outside of Xcel Energy need to learn how to communicate better and learn more about professionalism. If you can "build relationships" and wear really nice, expensive clothes and have a pretentious attitude... you can make a name for yourself, quickly. If you can get past that and the fact that they are not early adopters of anything innovative,.... it's the place to be. It's like working a government job but with a few perks of being a large corporation. Also some parts of the company are still ol' boys club. Oh and employees that say this company location (1800 Larimer) is diverse are highly mistaken. It's like everyone that works here long enough lives in a Xcel Energy bubble which is definitely not realistic by any means. I also think that most tenured employees act entitled. It's weird to say the least.

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