Pros
Vacation: ENMAX offers a massive amount of vacation to employees. Between actual paid vacation, flex days and holiday shut down, ENMAX employees rival school teachers with the amount of time off available to them. Work/Life Balance: If an employee manages themselves correctly there is no reason to be working more than a 40 hour work week. Facility: Decent on-site cafeteria, gym, day care and free parking help make this place bearable.
Cons
Lack of leadership: ENMAX has lots of managers but not lots of leaders. A good leader would actually talk to their team instead of sitting at their desk trying to set a personal best high score in candy crush. Everyone acknowledges this person does this and yet somehow it is OK??? Perhaps less time on candy crush and more time on strategy and planning would ensure ENMAX was actually a market leader instead of a follower. Reactive: No surprise that when you have a lack of good leaders and unqualified managers, you spend most of your time in a reactive mode instead of setting the pace for the rest of the market. As a result, instead of careful planning and execution, you get rushed projects by people who are stressed out because they weren’t prepared. Terrible culture: People spend more of their time worried about internal politics vs. just getting the job done the best they can. Unless you’re well liked by a small influential group you won’t make it anywhere at this place. Decision making: Painfully slow for even simple things and once a decision is made it has to be continually justified instead of making progress on the project. Tenure and lack differentiated experience: Far too many employees that have been around for a long time and only have ENMAX as their career experience. Great to have that knowledge but it kills innovation.
