Commerce Energy Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Great work culture; team work."

What do you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"Great work environment; team work; enjoy working with the team."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"None, but as interviewing for any other companies. I bet some one can find it as a great place to work for."

What don't you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"No future for the company; management changes; no directions on the individual career path."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Nothing really at this point. The company has been bought by another company."

"This review was good and interesting, very helpful to describe experience and skills. This was easy to use."

What do you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"The place was fun and the people were nice, The managers were very helpful and caring."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"No, because the company had mass lay offs and has been sold to a company in Canada"

What don't you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"The schedule was to work every saturday and knowing company was possibly closing several months ahead of time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management did a good job, they keeped consistent with employees reviews, and suggestions for improvement."

What do you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"Was able to work on a staff with my brother and father, and had a kind and helpful manager in Phil Minick."

"Commerce Energy was a good place to work, unfortunately many people were laid off."

What do you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"I believed in the product and the people were great."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Unfortuantely, recently, the company went out of business."

What don't you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"Hostile takeover and hostile exit of CEO"

What do you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"People and senior management"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Company ahs been acquired and will close in a short period of time."

What don't you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"Certain non performers"

What do you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"I was able to keep serving my accounts that I have held for the last 15 years with their natural gas and energy needs."

What don't you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"it seemed the client or customer was last in line. Information was tough to get when needed to help close a deal."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"management is always different with the company your with. I find the best way of working with management is to stay above your qoutas."

"Wish it could have worked out"

What do you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"I had an excellent boss and great co-workers"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"This company no longer exsists as it was."

What don't you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"Benefits could have been better."

"Work somewhere else in Costa Mesa"

What do you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"I liked when I first worked there: calling on small business, training for the markets to be serviced, training on how the electricity energy functions. It provided a better understanding of the services offered so I can effectively sell them. It was a pleasure to work with my first manager, Phil Minick."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure the interviewer doesn't smell like alcohol and he bathed recently.Read the business section. Study up on gas and oil futures. Sound like an expert. If it's for customer service, look elsewhere."

What don't you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"The rest of it! The maturity of the customer service/Inside sales staff are immature, catty, and do not like smart, educated people like me. My new manager was threatened when I was taking continuing education courses. Upper management disrespected the front end employees. The director of the call center was an alcoholic, and should have been fired sooner. The new CEO was not honest. It was a very stressful environment, and was releived when I got laid off. No one from inside sales was allowed opportunities for another field, which was a shame, as I wanted to start over in marketing."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"1) Grow up and take a leadership class2) No favoritism! Why glorify the stoned/ditzy employees3) Better hiring practices. The majority of the staff didn't know how to do their job, and shouldn't have been hired.4) Better training. See #35) Provide advancement opportunities to employees that contributed and helped grow the department. Steve Ritnour, Mike Habbas, and I could have been promoted for everything we did."

What do you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"I loved the people. Everyone was trying there best to make the company successful."

What don't you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"Unfortunately it could not keep its credit line so it had to be sold. Otherwise I would still have been there."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They should have moved more quickly on"

"Company has been purchased and will be moving out of state - not too many opportunities."

What do you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"In my 6 years at Commerce, I have had lots of flexibility and opportunity to apply many technologies which have helped the company generate and support hundreds of thousands of customers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"only interview if you're looking for a -short- term employment."

What don't you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"Growth opportunity. I have held this title for all 6 years, and although it is a position that I am very comfortable with, there was really no room to advance. This was primarily because of our small size."

"Adequate at best"

What do you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"The people I got to work with, both customers and the majority of the employees. I got to speak with some of the nicest people around the country (and some of the rudest also)."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Best of luck, you are going to need it."

What don't you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"The leads were horrendous, the company was very partial to certain employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Treat everyone the same as you would like to be treated. Don't be partial to certain employees, treat every employee fairly. Make sure your lead giver has some validity to his list of potential customers."

"Commerce Energy is a faced paced enviroronment and has been a great company to work for. I am seeking employment because the company has been sold to another entity."

What do you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"Commerce has been a great place to work but the new owners are folding the operations in California and moving operations to their Canadian headquaters."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"No need to interview now unless you want to move to Toronto, Canada."

What don't you like about working at Commerce Energy?

"My position will be retired in Oct 09."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep the operation in California open. It's profitable."