Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) Employer Reviews

Provided a wide variety of growth opportunities, including teaching, tech staff representation, and software development life cycle.

To many conflicts of interest -
- Not open to competitive bid process, each group knows who they want you to use, specific contractors who employ PGE retirees or thier companies.
- Have an Internal "Do not Hire" list that does not have guidlines or require supporting documentation. PMs who inherit bad jobs from others take final fall. --
--Contractors – more... may be placed unknowingly on list at anytime including months later w/o reason and released. – less

Offers stable job, variety of work, good people, good location.

A good company with lots of experienced people and very interresting projects.

Love my job, company is great to work for and has wonderful benefits.

The company has been good to me over the decade plus I have worked here. Unfortunately form over substance has been the mantra for advancement and promotion within business. Work/life balance isn't a core competency 9talked about but little is done to enhance).

Good work environment in SFO client location and learned a lot

2R17 Outage. 1st outage of my career and it was an eye opening experience.

It was very nice working for PG&E. It has very good benifits.

PG&E is a an interesting company to be a part of to say the least. As a marketer within the company, you are constantly challenged on how to engage customers with an intangible commodity that they never think about unless it is broken. This hurdle pushes the team to think outside of the box to come up with creative and persuasive ideas to reach customers – more... and cut through the clutter.

PG&E, like any utility, is often seem as slow moving and antiquated in its processes. Although this is true at times, there is a lot of opportunity to influence the way customers are marketed to and engage them in conversations that are often not top of mind. This means that there is opportunity to bring creativity to the table and move the needle on many fronts.

Having been with the company for almost five years, the one thing I can say emphatically about the company is that there is never a dull day at work. PG&E offers a multitude of work experience that has helped me build a strong customer centric portfolio of projects that span from building brand trust to pushing energy efficiency programs. This work includes both the strategic planning from the ground up to hands on involvement of the tactical execution. – less

PG&E is an employee focused company where the well being and life-work-balance is important, as well as customer service.
The team setting encourages critical thinking and opportunities to take the lead on projects.
A typical day would include meetings to discuss team goals and current projects status, meetings with customers to discuss their goals – more... and potential projects, and correspondence with customers and clients to follow up on current projects status.
The most difficult part of the job is determining the overall budget projection of project costs for the year-end.
Working in teams eases the difficulty of determining the budget, and is a great way to build relationships. – less

I have 29 years in the Electric Utility Industry. I have increased knowledge while working at PG&E. I have learned more about Project Management, The Network Underground Systems serving major cities such as San Francisco and Managing major budgets such as $500 million. I

Great Place to work. Excellent company ethics, community promotion and involvement. Green - renewable, etc focused. Good benefits.

Worked with both the administrators and the customers of the company.
Learned an abundance on the energy utility business, customer service and marketing.
Management was learned for both customers and contractors.
Co-workers depended on each other to manage customers and clients.
The hardest part of the job was not knowing the upcoming changes.
Most – more... enjoyable part of the job was helping customers and clients to achieve their goals. – less

good work enviroment with other employees, all hands on work from the working boss to the lowest man. Everbody is eager to help, On the road most of the time. Coming home is the best part of the job

Head Secretary for engineering department of 110 and Senior Director's 'right-hand'. Maintained all aspects of department's daily administration.