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Was a great place to work before they sold out the employees - Project Engineer II POWER Engineers Employee Review

1.0
6 Jan 2025
Recommend
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Pros

It's hard to say what the pro's will be in six months to a year. I guess if you like working for a massive multinational publicly traded company, working for POWER is an easy way to get in to WSP. The culture used to be great and they used to sell how POWER was different because of its grass-roots employee owned approach, but everything is changing after the acquisition by WSP. Currently, POWER still offers work from home and the work life balance is okay. But it's hard to say if upper management will stick to their word on that in a year when the transition is complete.

Cons

POWER was acquired by WSP in the fall of 2024. So everything is subject to change. But anyone who is applying to POWER should know that they are going to be working for WSP within a year. - The pay is abysmal and the benefits are just okay. - Upper management sold out the employees to make some quick money by selling the company and then cut ties and ran. - Nothing has been done to make up for the loss of employee ownership opportunities. - The company is currently in turmoil with the ongoing transition/dissolution after the acquisition. - People are quitting in droves, which is putting more pressure on anyone left over. So if you start with POWER now, know that it's going to be a mess.

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5.0
20 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great place to work with good benefits

Cons

Sold to a larger company with worse benefits

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3.0
31 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Was a genuinely great place to work. Great people and great culture. It was worth the slightly-lower-than-average pay because work life balance and benefits were great. I enjoyed going to work every day.

Cons

Poor financial decisions from upper management regarding the shareholder program led to the company's demise. Upper management sold out to WSP. Management made millions while long time employees got zilch. As someone else had mentioned, retention bonuses were unfairly distributed. Most people didn't get any retention bonus even if they had been long time employees of the company. It really felt like everyone who wasn't upper management got stabbed in the back. They got their payout then dumped the company. Still stings to this day.

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