If you are straight out of college or about to retire this is the place for you - Anonymous employee Xcel Energy Employee Review

3.0
6 Mar 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of vacation time, easy to move departments, pension, and stability (rarely have layoffs and hard to get fired).

Cons

Catastrophic insurance (single person's deductible is 3000K)-this is ok if you don't have a chronic condition or need insurance, forced to use a mail order pharmacy, no innovation-over half the company is over 50 years old and have been there their entire lives. They have never worked anywhere else. So their attitude is this is the way I have been doing it for 30 years and this is the way I will do it. There are a large amount of people over 65 yeras old. This is ok, except a majority of them do not like to use computers, so everything is on paper. Many of my counterparts just surf the web all day! If you liked to be challenged this is not the place for you. BUT it doesn't matter to the company, because it is paid by the public, whether they have overhead, duplicate jobs, or people who do not provide value. Also, you have to work with people who should be fired. Lower then average pay.

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

Standard methods, cloud infrastructure, and reliance on in house staff over contractors makes it very easy to implement safe, fast, consistent changes. You will be valued as a human and you will have a voice within this company. You can make a career here. Your coworkers and immediate leadership are all talented and intelligent individuals who actually know how to do the same work you are doing.

Cons

AI rollout and unevenly applied hybrid work made things difficult for employees with disabilities and those that lived far from office who had traditionally worked remote or for tasks that do not lend themselves well to AI overhead

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