Southern California Edison Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"The utility industry will undergo changes; such as, competition. They are current reducing and outsourcing as much work as possible in order to stream line costs. With all these changes your job is always at risk. The stability is no longer there and management red tape is larger."

What do you like about working at Southern California Edison?

"Their portfolio of assets and their committment to procuring energy."

What don't you like about working at Southern California Edison?

"Some of Sr Mgmt did not follow the core values set up by the company and were quite frankly a hypocritical culture."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do as you say you will do and recognize that diversity in the work place is a good thing. By diversity I mean, outside the state of California."

"I have worked at SCE for almost 7 years. The company's culture is a major hindrance for upward mobility and is finally going thru major changes at the expense of good employees. The work life balance is good, however, is not adhered by all at the management level."

What do you like about working at Southern California Edison?

"Good job security. Laid back and not much pressure. Family oriented."

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

"Scenario based. Lots of Project Managements situational questions such as prioritizing work, communication, team building and dealing with difficult people."

What don't you like about working at Southern California Edison?

"bureaucracy and full of red tape. Lots of legacy systems."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More proactive in telecommuting and open to new ideas. More progressive to new ideas."

What do you like about working at Southern California Edison?

"The innovation and learning opportunity, successfully start and ending programs, and growth."

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

"be mindful of the business model and the area you're interviewing for."

What don't you like about working at Southern California Edison?

"underutilization resources,poor planning, and vast waste before, during, and after program and projects, No substantial matrix to measure the success and failure. No lessons learned."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"more strategic planning to maximize profit and output, team building thru shared strategic direction, measure and control progress, share information timely and appropriately, lead and manage people, process, and technologies."

"SCE is a great place to work, however an overabundance of middle management can muddle processes."

"SCE IT is undergoing a transformation and is not a good place to work currently."

"I loved my job and I liked the area but it was a financial burden on me and my family to continue working in the location that I was at. I did not want to leave but if I continued I would have not been able to sustain my living conditions."

"unappreciated"

What do you like about working at Southern California Edison?

"The employees are a family and pull together for the betterment of the company."

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

"If you have high standards and work ethic, look elsewhere or be prepared to struggle against the tide."

What don't you like about working at Southern California Edison?

"Management is unprofessional and manages by intimidation and fear at all levels."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I advised the CEO to provide mandatory training to all supervisory and management roles."

What do you like about working at Southern California Edison?

"Security and its closer to home than previous positions which allows me to see my children more often."

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

"Be prepared for long hours and little pay. Massive regulation to the point that it becomes mindless following."

What don't you like about working at Southern California Edison?

"Long hours and very little pay. I am overqualified for my current position."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pay my employees what they're worth and work them less vice high hours and little pay."

"There are thousands of high-paying management, tech, and engineering jobs involved in providing electric utility services in the Southern California region, but SCE is a public monopoly and works a lot like a government agency. Things are slow, outdated, and oftentimes really boring."