ENGIE reviews

Management doesn't know how to manage people, business or clients. The overall business management is short-sighted, leadership says one thing and does another, the expectation is one person will do the job or two or more people, constant layoffs, crippling turnover, terrible chaos, no organization, little communication, no established business practices, etc... End result is no respect for employees, no balance work/life, mediocre salaries, never-ending hours, and terrible stress. No real advancement opportunities either, terrible lack of trust from the top down and the bottom up, and disengaged management.

Where do I start?! Favoritism is the only way to get anywhere in that company! Well that & doing horrible work. If you're not a manager/team lead's drinking buddy (or booty call) or you do quality work than plan on going nowhere at Ecova. Management uses a faulty data tracking tool to do everything from deciding whether to hire/fire employees to sales marketing to attract new clients. This "tool" however is broken & they know it but continue to use it to demoralize the employees. Praise is given to people who move thru the numbers (thus making this "tool" LOOK good) but don't actually DO any work, while the people who have to actually DO the work (thus making this "tool" aka Time Tracker & Graph LOOK bad) get reprimanded. This intense pressure to make things "LOOK" good for the charts & graphs creates a cutthroat atmosphere where GOOD PEOPLE & EMPLOYEES feel like they have to cheat, cherry pick & do sub-par, low quality work in order to keep from drowning! Management does NOT listen to the employees & has no qualms about asking people to work 12 hours a day 6 days a week (while they themselves don't put in overtime because they "are salaried employees & don't get paid to work OT"...shame on you Ecova!). Managers & Team Leads have no experience in the jobs they are in charge of, therefore incompetent people are setting outrageous goals. The "Leaders" know nothing about the work their subordinates do & aren't qualified to set the goals so when the goals NEVER get met good people get dumped on & made to feel stupid & worthless. Aside from the favoritism towards drinking & boot-knocking buddies, regular employees had their incentives taken away! We are told in Town-Hall meetings (talking heads composed of upper management stand in the break room & give us a run down of the health of the company once a quarter) that we have "had the best year we have ever had" but STILL haven't met the goal that would allot us bonus! Say WHAT?! How is that possible you ask? How does a company have the best year EVER as far as revenue is concerned but still doesn't pay out a bonus as promised (for the 5th year in a row)? Well according to management "the goals were set to high. But we will be lowering them for next year." Well 2 months later they pull our bonuses ALL TOGETHER! And they stop the company wide pay raise (which was only $0.50 or less, but better than NOTHING!)...BUT they continue to give "merit based" raises...in other words if you drink with the manager/team lead OR you sleep with him than you probably got a raise (anywhere from $1 to $3...must be nice!!!)! But for those of us who do neither of those things, well "sorry we're not allowed to give raises anymore" THIS PLACE SUCKS!!! I would rather pay off Faust's debt & spend eternity with the Devil than stay another year at Ecova...