Is it good to work at FE? - Engineer FirstEnergy Employee Review

3.0
2 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Your peers can be great and the pay is good as well with great benefits but you still need to pay a little for dental and vision. Good opportunities to jump around departments. Most departments are fully remote with some being hybrid. Plenty of opportunities to learn more and focus on getting your FE and PE license.

Cons

Upper Management is disconnected from its employees. FE cares more about maximizing profits for the share holders by over working its employees and is focused on saying the right things but never doing them. They say they're working hard to hire more but no new employees have come in other than from the rotational program which consists from engineers with less than 2 years experience. Theres corporate rules for pay and salary increases that favor the company and not the employee (for example a market rate increase doesn't increase your salary). With problems from House Bill 6 the employees have been paying the price and the company has focused on saying what people want to hear but not delivering on it.

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5.0
3 Dec 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

FirstEnergy is a big company with a lot of growth that I've seen firsthand. Employees are helpful and all have the shared goals of keeping reliability of the electric grid. The pay is decent and stays competitive with the market rates as they do reviews consistently and evaluate. Its a great company that is trying to do better after misguided leads hip in the past

Cons

Some executive leadership vision is not shared with lower level employees. The recent transition from WFH back to the office has left employees such as myself wondering why its not role based WFH.

4.0
21 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great office work-group, both staffers and managers

Cons

As covid came upon us, sharing the time in-office was necessary but challenging however the team effort worked well so we could all get our required work done

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