Horiible Culture - Anonymous employee Empower Employee Review

2.0
1 Dec 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Location, cafeteria (though way too expensive), a paycheck. Some fun events on occassion. Free covered parking.Pockets of people who really care about doing good work.

Cons

CULTURE. A silo culture that allows teams who should be working together to dig their heels in and create obstacles for each other.Very hard to get anything done - much less get anything done right. Titles give some people permission to treat others bad. Some areas of favoritism that restrict promotion of good people and implementation of good ideas. Some management need more backbone. Instead of managing individual issues, valuable perks were taken away from all - casual Fridays and flexible schedules. Poor performers not dealt with. HelpDesk is understaffed. Don't often get quality results from them, which results in not having the resources needed to do my job right. It took days, and many calls to the help desk to get my computer working right during my first weeks of employment. Dread having to call them for anything. All i hear from them is how busy they are. "Big Brother" - have to badge in and out of each building all day - and the parking lot during lunch hours. can't forget badge when going to the bathroom, or will be locked out of department.Phone logs printed for management. Internet excessively restricted, and probably heavily monitored.

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5.0
18 Jun 2026
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Pros

Empower fully supports work life balance. They also support and encourage community service. I like the fact that they match not only by monetary contributions, they also match actual volunteer hours with money. Management at all levels is committed and invested in you professionally and personally.

Cons

None that I have found.

2.0
22 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It is a consistent paycheck in an industry that isn't going anywhere. The benefits are average to slightly below average. If you are lucky, your immediate manager will be a real person and not just a faceless suit.

Cons

A caution to the culture : Empower is more interested in APPEARING to be a good place to work instead of actually being a good place to work. The employees were instructed by HR to leave a Glassdoor review IF we enjoy working at Empower. They made no mention of everyone leaving honest feedback regardless of their feelings about the company. That is incredibly telling about the culture and priorities of the company.

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