To much tiers of management!!!!!! - Senior Financial Analyst EDF Employee Review

2.0
Mar 3, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good 9 to 5 culture. London Locations are great. Safety culture improving on non-nuclear sites. Work-Life balance with big room to flexibility (not open to all and big elements of favouritism if you synchronised with top tier managers)

Cons

Top tiers of management are useless and not prepared to challenge the business just want to keep the status quo. They pay no attention to employee needs but also not worry with business performance. EDF energy show elements of a "grow-up" company from the nuclear side but anything non-nuclear related is rubbish and very detrimental and depressing to be perfectly honest.

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Cons

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Pros

Real opportunities to grow into more technical roles (Control Center Operator → Systems Engineer paths exist and aren't just on paper). You get hands-on experience with industrial systems most people only read about — OSI PI, SCADA, OMS integrations, cloud telemetry — which is hard to get elsewhere. Management generally supports continued education and certifications.

Cons

Decisions move slowly. Getting tooling, software, or process changes approved often involves multiple layers, including approvals that flow up to the French parent company. Procurement and IT requests can take weeks for things that would take a day at a smaller company. Some legacy systems and processes haven't been modernized — you'll find yourself working around quirks instead of fixing them.

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