Pros
Compensation and benefits are fair overall considering it's in the greater NY area and some employees commute from the city. There is free lunch offered. Various departments work pretty much in silos. Not really an exciting place to work. Most are 9-5 employees and hardly motivated. Won't be surprised if the company becomes a takeover target again just like the one five years ago. That's what usually happens when you sit on boring assets collecting capacity revenues. The renewable group will be a sidebar from now on and home solar business will soon be a past for NRG. As for the new era of distributed generation that David Crane envisioned, it will be nowhere to be found a year from now.
Cons
NRG has recently moved to the new HQ building in Princeton. The building was the idea of David Crane, the former CEO who was ousted six months ago, a pure act of short term shareholder childishness. Ironically the building design that includes many renewable features now runs contrary to what the new CEO (an insider and operational guy) champions in coal, gas, and nuclear. Crane at least had a vision of transforming a traditional IPP to the new energy future but unfortunately became a victim of tanking stock price. He was let go when crude and power prices were at the lowest. Can the new CEO do any worse from here? Not sure if the new CEO has any idea about the company's direction for the long term.