Corruption, preferential treatment, hiring of relatives, unethical - Senior Engineer Bloom Energy Employee Review

1.0
21 Jul 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None. Do not join this company until the below mentioned cons are addressed.

Cons

Why this company is not profitable after 20 Years? Diversity is great, no question about it. Promoting diversity does not mean you promote in-eligible and in-capable persons to be directors. Everyone in the company knows who I am talking about. Everyone who was hired by the so called referral process by a existing company employee who was a manager or a friend of the hiring manager got a good salary offer then others who came without any referral. Where does those extra pay come from ? Hard working passionate employees get less salary. Why was a VP from India who was not a founding member of Bloom Energy was on the 2018 NYSE main stage for the going public event? Why was he allowed and who pulled him into the main stage even though he was not a founding member? Preferential treatment. Huge disparity in salary in India's salary structure - average employees getting 10lack/year vs some persons getting 50lack to 1cr /year? Why? Salary is supposed to be based on local market conditions, not based on if the person transferred from US to India. Go hire the excellent talent available in India, no need to import POS from US to India and pay them 1 to 2 Crore / year. Progression of employees's career who came through referral are much faster than those who came without referral. As an example a director who has been working for 10 years did not get to the VP level(there is only one such person). But, a Sr. Engineer who worked in engineering got promoted to VP level!. How - Preferential treatment at work. People leave this company since they want better salary outside and they do not have passion. Why does this company re-hire them back as Sr.Director (couple of levels up when they left bloom energy). So it is that desperate that you have to re-hire people who leave bloom by giving them extra salary and promotion? Here is a challenge to the HR - Put out a survey asking employees asking them about preferential treatment and hiring and promoting of same caste employees. Ask employees to provide name of the relations between the manager and their relatives or friends. Look at salary disparity. You will be surprised. The trick this company uses to hide preferential treatment is to keep the base salary in the range so that DOL will not be able to statistically prove discrimination. Instead give a lot of stocks to the preferentially treated employees. Any person(average empooyee) who is working in this company for more than 4 years, you are getting screwed salary wise. Instead of keeping up with market conditions and giving you proper salary adjustments, they will instead go hire new talent from outside and pay them way more salary than you even at the same level. This is so that they can push employees who worked for several years. This company wants employees to only work for 3 to 4 years. After that they want them to leave. Why? Because if you work for more than 4 years, you will be able to identify the above mentioned patterns and discrimination charges can be brought by DOL. Can even become a class action law suit. If this company needs to be profitable, the change has to be from the top. All preferentially treated persons based on various system (friend, caste, white, Indian, so called diversity) needs to be flushed out. Pull in passionate talent and pay them top salary to retain them. Every Director and VP needs to be re examined . How they got there? Referral or No Referral? Affirmative action?

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5.0
18 May 2026
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Pros

A mature start up feel. No two days are the same, lots of interesting projects to work on and given the opportunity to have an impact The people are a highlight. Teams are collaborative, driven, and full of smart individuals who are genuinely invested in what they’re building. There’s a strong sense of ownership, and you’re given the opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way regardless of level.

Cons

There really are not any major cons so far. It is 5 days in office. And whilst I am local and enjoy coming in a little flexibility would be nice. That said there's a great gym, good restaurant and free EV charging so I like being here!

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1.0
23 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great technology and programs in place when utilize correctly. I’m really digging deep trying to find the positives, but it’s hard.

Cons

No leadership or direction you can never find a supervisor or a lead when you have a problem, no air-conditioning in half of the warehouse where all the employees actually work it’s actually the other side that’s currently being remodeled for another production line that has air-conditioning, you are led to believe this is a great company to grow with and at but you quickly realize it is actually the complete opposite of everything they tell you in training, no one pays any attention to what is going on so if you are a good hard worker that shows up on time everyday, ready to work and you cannot because the tools to do your job are missing and you have to spend the next hour looking for someone to tell it easily gets overlooked and old real fast. They have three job recruitment agencies on site with 4 time clocks all right next to each other so clocking in and out is torture. They also seem to have a rodent problem because there are mice in the locker room eating the lunch/food we bring. Between the dust, free flow chemicals, and fiberglass particles that are everywhere in there and get all over everything so naturally I was shocked when I blow my nose and it’s all black and grey snot that comes out.

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