Exciting technical problems, mediocre mid-level managers - Staff Engineer Bloom Energy Employee Review

4.0
11 Feb 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great customers, repeat customers, product is real and shipping and works, short time between idea for how to solve a problem until you can test and ship it. Can use your technical skills to the fullest every day.

Cons

Management decisions regarding orgainization are more geared to who has been there the longest instead of who is more competent. If you are exceptionally talented, management won't totally ignore you, but if you are a regular engineer, you've got to be a friend of the department head to have influence and be listened to. Difficult to move between divisions.

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5.0
12 Jan 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- great work culture (besides a few negative people) - surrounded by growing team - competitive pay

Cons

- wishy washy with decision-making - management will make requests, you will complete work, and then there is no follow thru when you hand stuff up to higher ups

1.0
23 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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