NRECA Reviews

Employee morale is in shambles and so is productivity. Went from great CEO (Mr.Glenn English) and senior leadership to clique-based amateur leader wannabes performing for themselves at the monthly all-staff free for all / weirdfest. Many, highly-respected staff were ousted, retired, or found something better. The remaining hard workers are barely keeping the organization running while trying to ride out the craziness until the board does something about it and replaces management. Sad to see an organization crumble in such a short period of time.

If you're in tech, the IT shops makes a lot of awesome noises about new tech and good development. They don't follow through with it very often, but they make the right noises and do try - but politics drive everything there. The end result is that a large swathe of the IT department, while strong in their roles, would be like indoor cats trying to survive in the wild if they looked for employment elsewhere if they've been at NRECA too long. If you want to be a lifer somewhere? This is your place. 2:1 ratio of time spent in meetings to time spent coding. If you do Web Development, know that there is no serious web development going on there. The IT group responsible for outward facing web sites is led by someone who acknowledges a near total lack of understanding of the technology and is so bad at outputting high quality, engaging sites, that the association has actually removed the responsibility from them to Communications in an acknowledgement of the sheer ineptitude of the team top-to-bottom. Yet they are still a team that claims responsibility for web b/c once the real work is done, they make text updates for interested parties. A situation which only arose out of the desire of aforementioned manager to protect the team's jobs at the expense of efficiency of people owning their own content. They went so far to protect that setup as to spend MILLIONS of dollars on SharePoint, only to hinder it's implementation b/c to do so it was believed would put the low-skilled web team members at risk (the majority of that team). As a bonus to that situation, the person who runs the team does so like it's a high school clique. Meetings among the team regularly devolve into rudderless wanderings of people not clear on what they should be doing, who understand the lack of impact they have on the overall workings of the association, and know they're lucky to just have jobs. A case in point, when the abjectly poor management of the group's director was pointed out, daily 'scrums' were implemented to facilitate information exchange. Turned out nothing is ever discussed except who is late, and who actually had anything to work on (a frequent occurrence b/c no other groups in the association believe in their quality of work). The end result being an additional place, on top of the 4 already mandated, employees are required to capture their daily tasks and duties. I suspect that was done due to a manager incapable of understanding the information he was even dealing with, but it works to the teams benefit b/c in light of not having anything else to do, reporting on all the nothing they're actually doing DOES fill time nicely. The benefits have been under attack for years. They got progressively worse each passing year. Now they are subpar at best. A bad place to be for an insurance provider. The CEO, who replaced an amazing leader in G. English, is running the place to the ground.