Decent people but you are not supported - Analyst Xcel Energy Employee Review

3.0
25 Aug 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great people and purpose (pursuing clean energy, providing necessary utilities to millions of people). The name recognition in the industry is great. If you stick around for a few years projects start rolling your way. You do have opportunities for growth.

Cons

Under tremendous O&M pressure. Means not a lot of support to employee workload if you happen to be in an understaffed area. View people as fungible; as such are losing much of the institutional wisdom necessary to see projects to actual completion and replacing it with AI and someone who has never worked for any utility before. Wage inflation has occurred - nothing like working your tail off for years at a certain pay grade and then realizing you are educating people about the basics who are in newly created positions that are 1-2 grades higher on the pay scale. If you botch a project no leadership will remember in five years because they'll all be gone. Voluntary retirements offered to hundreds of employees a few years ago leaves one with the feeling you will eventually be next. Competing business units. Leading the clean energy revolution but hasn't updated basic systems to allow very, very basic business processes to be completed quickly or easily. Don't get mad at your supervisor, they are so overworked they aren't put in a position to succeed/support their people, even if they want to.

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5.0
15 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great, Lots of opportunity within,

Cons

You have to drive to downtown Denver

5.0
18 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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