Itron Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Itron full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Working hard to find new revenue streams. New focus on developing employees. Company is trying to change its culture for better work/life balance.

Cons – Liberty Lake office is corporate HQ. That is a difficult office to get to from everywhere in the country. A centralized office would be better for meeting space.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Itron full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good benefits. Tries to take care of it's employees. Very positive work environment. New executive team helped shift culture.

Cons – Company struggles with process and transition to being a real enterprise. In transition during challenging market. Personalities and "old ways" keep from moving coming into more disciplined, strategic thinking and execution. Don't know how to manage strategy development and execution in efficient manner. Too many personalities and no history of this type of leadership.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Itron full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Hard problems and fast moving.

Cons – The company as a whole does not think like a software solutions company, however it wants to be one.

Advice to Senior Management – None.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Itron full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – When profits/revenues were good...bonus and profit sharing was nice. HQ and Raleigh office are comfortable. Business processes usually organized. Most people are friendly, professional, and talented. Products work and relatively few product issues. Communication from management is above average but not perfect.

I was Project Manager for nearly 5 years, and had the best boss I have ever worked in my 20yr career.

Cons – I did the same job for over 4 years and my boss changed 3 times. First 2 were great and the last was a "Dud".

Not all, but some managers could care less about an employee's work/life balance and the unique values an employee can provide the company.

Travel can be extreme. Doing the same job, I went from 10% for the first 18 months to 100% when I left.

Employees are expected to the bank. Itron's travel policy (when I worked there) required the employee pay for all the travel expenses from personal funds and then submit expense accounts for reimbursement. If I missed an expense, it was out of my pocket. My expenses exceeded $50k/ yr.

Incentives/bonuses for project mangers became more complex and virtually unobtainable. I quite trying.

I was laid off (by the Dud boss) because I would not accept a project that required travel 100%, 2 time zones away for almost a year. My boss did absolutely nothing to help me find a job within company as well. I felt as if I was "just sucked in" and later "spit out." Itron did provide a minimal severance package only after some negotiation.

There is a high turnover rate of project managers and sale executives.

Advice to Senior Management – Take care of your staff and they will take care of your company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Itron full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good people to work with. Lots of friends. Flexible work hours.

Cons – Management doesn't listen to the "troops". Too many politics for a comfortable work place.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to more than the Sales staff.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Itron full-time for more than a year

Pros – Itron benefited greatly from the government stimulating the utility companies to investing the Smart-Grid technologies. They treated their people fine while the Smart-Grid investments were being made.

Cons – The government is no longer stimulating investment in Smart-Grid technologies, so the revenue stream is drying up and Itron is already changing how they treat employees. It is not a great place to work at this point, the end of 2012, and they will probably soon be MORE layoffs.

Advice to Senior Management – Find methods that produce steady streams of revenue rather than quick hits. Push harder into the software arena and charge for software licensing, upgrades and support.

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Itron

Pros – Few have been lucky to be teamed up with good mentors and been rewarded for their efforts. This is good platform to familiarize with very good technology. Relatively lesser stress. Good place to start , provided you are ready to take it slow.

Cons – Terrible resource management, you assign tasks to a person by his skills not what's left over after everything else is taken by people who worked there forever.Hoarding knowledge is pretty popular..leaves one wondering if knowledge decreases when you share....! You need to be in so many good books for your efforts to be noticed

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to trust your employees for what they are.

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Itron full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good Smart people to work with
Leader in the smart grid technology

Cons – Poor Management, you can move up only if you are good on the social scene

Advice to Senior Management – Establish better processes to enable good employees to move

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Itron

Pros – flexible working hours and locations (home or office)

Cons – They make us be on call on weekends

Advice to Senior Management – Give employees more choice on what they work on

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Itron full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Itron Consulting and Analysis team produces high quality work. For the most part, upper management in the Consulting and Analysis group are very laid back and easy going. Great environment to work in. Flexible schedule.

Cons – If you find the work interesting, then there are no downsides for working for the Consulting and Analysis group.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend