EPS Reviews

3.5

76% would recommend to a friend

(112 total reviews)
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Yigitcan Unludag

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68% positive business outlook

EPS has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 112 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The EPS 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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112 reviews
1.0
24 Aug 2015
Recommend
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Pros

1..I was home often because there wasn't any work and I was getting paid for it. 2. EPS is only good at testing Transformers, circuit breakers and other electrical apparatus, nothing else... 3. They typically pay a lot...because they cant get anyone to work for them, because you come to find out they treat their employees like garbage.

Cons

1. Management will LIE and tell you whatever they you want to hear to get you to jump ship at your current job to get you to join them. Then as time goes on the true colors of EPS start to emerge. 2. The average time a person stays at EPS is roughly 5 years and most of those people are only their fresh out of school and know nothing. Once they have sufficient experience they leave mostly because of management. 3. There is practically ZERO help if you are unsure of how to perform a task or are in need of help because something doesn't work and when that times come...YOU the employee will be blamed for everything that transpired even if you called your entire department for help, called a manufacturer and received little help. 4. The people who own EPS, the REED family, are not good people to work with. Unless you are buddy-buddy with them, don't expect much respect. 5. Feedback and communication from management at EPS is atrocious. Asking your manager on what you can do to improve your job goes nowhere. At the end of the year you will be told of numerous negative things you did despite be told the opposite throughout the entire year up until your evaluation 6. EPS only good at testing transformers, circuit breakers and other electrical apparatus, nothing else... I wouldn't trust their relay department to properly test an overcurrent relay or engineer a door into a substation control house. Probably the main reason to this is the Reeds and other management treat the employees as expendable assets that can be replaced. As a result any experienced people 1/3 of a brain leave ASAP. 7. Most of the POSITIVE reviews on the internet for EPS are all corporate created because of the overwhelmingly negative reviews the company has. I know this, because several disgruntled EPS managers told me before they left for other companies. So DO NOT believe what most of the positive reviews say. More than likely most are all EPS corporate/management propaganda.

1.0
23 Jul 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Anyone who has worked for EPS and is honest about J their experience typically has nothing good to say about this company.....and neither do I. EPS pays more than most companies if you have experience.

Cons

All the positive comments on Glassdoor for EPS are generated by EPS management and human resource administrators. I was told this by the former manager of the Philadelphia office and the office in Virginia. No former tech that has worked for EPS has anything positive to say. Except that leaving the company was their best decision. EPS pays more than most companies if you have experience because the companies managers treat the employees like an expendable asset. EPS has a a very high attrition rate and the only way to keep people there for any length of time is by a typically higher pay rate. EPS is owned by the Reed family which employee family friends as management that aren't qualified for the job. Put former apparatus testers in charge of Protection and Control departments and they are of no help. If a P&C tech is needs assistance and unable to do the work, management blames the the tech. This happens even if the tech notifies management of issues. EPS encourages inner company rivalries, often causing inner company fights between offices. Equipment isn't shared, man power refused, etc. EPS will assign unqualified people to projects in hopes of getting someone to essentially stick to the job. If this fails, the employee is fired. Nothing is ever managements fault since they all suck up to the Reeds are essentially friends. I was told once by my mangers in St.louis that their goal is to create a company where people push buttons and pay techs $20 an hour...so they can have a greater manpower pool. They will no longer need to worry about losing people. EPS has poor training, one training session for ProTest from EPS is supposed to be equivalent to years of experience. You will automatically be considered an expert no it all, despite the fact you are not. Every employee who wasn't kissing the Reeds behinds encouraged me to leave the company ASAP and I did.

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8y
I am saddened to read your thoughts on EPS. We continue to grow as a company and know that this could not be possible without the help of our excellent team members.
1.0
13 Feb 2018

Engineer III

Recommend
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Pros

pay. people in Springfield, absolutely nothing else

Cons

management, organization, training, communication, expectations

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