Immature senior leaders with micro management skills and unable to align to a strategic plan - Anonymous employee Empower Employee Review

2.0
6 Sept 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits- health care, gym, on-site cafeteria, parking garage, central location

Cons

Across the board employees work in fear and have a victim mentality. Senior leaders are immature, verbally abusive, and controlling. Not a clue about how to innovate, work proactively, or engage employees. Salaried employees expected to work ridiculous hours so lean staffing position can be maintained. Turnover is ridiculous and no one seems to care. I thought the CEO was very bright, but the lack of response to obvious issues that seriously impact the business results made me change my mind. It all adds up to not making sales or retaining clients.

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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
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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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