Biased and Unprofessional Management
Pros
Decent pay for role, mostly young team that was easy to vibe with, and nice office location less than 15 min from the Rocky Mountains.
Cons
Four years ago I worked at Xcel Energy. The team that I was on had four of the most racist and disrespectful people I have ever worked with in my entire career. Each day that I was there was one micro-aggression turned into macro-aggressions after another. The manager was inexperienced. The team lead was also inexperienced and was an entitled boy who should not have been given that role. Two of the oldest people on the team were not only incompetent, but were useless in their roles and should have been retired. These four people brought down the entire team. They all were unable to do their jobs well and caused the majority of the issues that the rest of the team had to fix. They took no accountability for their mistakes or failures. In the end I somehow was let go over pointing out a contradiction the team manager had made. The brown nosing team lead was used as the managers attack dog to reprimand me. I was then terminated. I got the last laugh because I ended up with a much better role that pushed me into making 6 digits a year at a different organization 3 weeks later.
