Pros
The pay was decent and the company has a very generous vacation policy. New graduates coming in with no experience were (are?) being given 5 weeks holidays from the outset (compared to the standard 3 weeks). Great office space, beautiful employee lounge with a $25k espresso machine, pool table, Ping-Pong etc.
Cons
TAQA acquired a number of companies when the outlook for natural gas was significantly more appealing than it is now and as a consequence, its investment in Canada likely isn't looking as good as it once was. Acquiring as much as it did so quickly resulted in a very large mess (administratively and otherwise) and it cannot afford to throw the kind of resources it needs to in order to clean it up - makes it a painful place to be...like bailing out a sinking ship...as you are tossing another bail over the side, more water rushes into the boat. In my experience, employees weren't treated very well: Another consequence of working in this kind of environment is that it may make people behave differently than they might otherwise behave due to the pressure from above. I am specifically thinking of certain mid-level managers and supervisors that I was exposed to that, although they may have been good and decent people in another life, treated employees very poorly. What is even more disturbing is that senior management has been outwardly pushing its "TAQA Corporate Values" claiming to foster an environment that doesn't tolerate morally questionable behavior and yet a certain Supervisor with a long history (and human resource file) of belittling employees is still there. My sense (for what it is worth) is that management turns a blind eye to her behavior because she gets results. As a manager myself, I will concede that stern supervision is sometimes necessary; however her behavior crosses the line and still the company does nothing...very disappointing.
