EDF reviews

4.1

88% would recommend to a friend

(997 total reviews)

Bernard Fontana

79% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

EDF has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 997 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The EDF employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Énergie et exploitation des ressources naturelles industry (3.8 stars).

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997 reviews
5.0
Feb 10, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- Career development : There are hundreds of internal job opportunities available (at least in France), and the management forces employees to change position regularly. - Quality of life : 10,5 weeks of paid holidays

Cons

- Strong hierarchy : the organization is a pyramidal, and almost all decisions are top-down. - Few or none international career opportunities.

4.0
May 20, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Big business, great carreer opportunities, large responsibilities, excellent reward, major satisfaction. Great place to work.

Cons

Be in position a company not only to satisfy customer satisfaction related to electricity generation, transmission distribution, supply and energy sales, but also to face majors challenges related to corporate responsibility as well : climate change issues, smart grids, electric vehicles, disabled customers, sustainable development, ...

2.0
Aug 6, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1) Overall compensation package is competitive. This includes vacation/holidays, prospective bonus and benefits package together with salary. 2) Part of a growing industry... at least with all the new employees and consultants, there definitely is a growth vibe. 3) HQ located in beautiful Southern California, not far from San Diego. 4) A mostly friendly and (sometimes too) laid-back office environment. 5) Supervisors are usually good about granting necessary time off, and observing the need for work/life balance.

Cons

1) A Core value is transparency, but good luck finding it. Management is anything but that, and at all levels. 2) Genuinely incompetent people have made it into positions of authority, from Manager level all the way up to Executive VP. Still amazed at some of the poor contributions and general indecisiveness of individuals that have made their way into positions of authority in this company. 3) The HR department is practically invisible to you following your Day One orientation. And not in a good way. 4) Opportunities for advancement seem severely limited. The old adage of, "it's not what you know, but rather who you know" really seems to apply to all areas of this organization. 5) Too geographically spread out for its own good, leading to a severe lack of accountability at all professional levels. (Yet accountability is another supposed "core value".) 6) Barely disguised sense of malaise among many employees across numerous departments. 7) Surprisingly hierarchic and regimented corporate culture for a company firmly planted in a 21st-century growth industry.

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