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3.6

78% would recommend to a friend

(50 total reviews)

John Cleland

80% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Essential Energy has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 50 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Essential Energy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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50 reviews
1.0
9 Mar 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice town beaches. Well paid. Good walk up the break wall to clear your head from this place of work.

Cons

Staff work in fear of losing their jobs, so will stab you in the back without thinking twice. Culture is inbred, unless you are connected to someone else in the business you will go nowhere. You need to be getting drunk with your friends who are your subordinates on the weekends to get anywhere. Bullying is at extreme levels, management do nothing to help their staff and will turn against you to protect themselves. If you stand up to bullying, management will turn against you, better to stay silent and supressed like everyone else. People will take your work and use it for themselves. No women at upper management levels. Management sleeping with their staff. I know of management in eTech where the manager has slept with her subordinates and talks to her friends of who can be conquered. Company preaches code of conduct, but when push comes to shove not followed unless you are a target.

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Essential Energy Response
2y
Hi. We are disappointed to hear this was your experience at Essential Energy. We would like to better understand the reasons behind your review and invite you to please contact us on 13 23 91 to discuss.
3.0
29 Nov 2023

Upwards management

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent work culture and people

Cons

only shame was the upwards management. Anything happened at the company and there would be like 5 different managers asking about it. Needed more respect of the reporting chain.

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Essential Energy Response
2y
Hi. We are disappointed to hear this is your experience with Essential Energy. We would like to better understand the reasons behind your review and invite you to please contacts us on 13 23 91 to discuss further.
1.0
1 Nov 2023

Poor Managment

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great pay and entitlements, located in paradise

Cons

Where to begin... Management are so out of touch with those who actually do the work and are more concerned with setting targets and meeting quota's on goals/programs which are fundamentally floored. Speaking up within the organisation will get you a date with HR to explain why you are not a "team player" and if you make enough noise they will ship you to a meaningless role with meaningless title with a bunch of work to keep you busy. HR is currently streamlining position descriptions, so everyone is on a generic PD and can be moved around on a whim, while also consolidating rates of pay against meaningless AQF's

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Essential Energy Response
2y
Hi. We are disappointed to hear this is your experience with Essential Energy. We would like to better understand the reasons behind your review and invite you to please contacts us on 13 23 91 to discuss further.
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