Great place to work if you arent skilled and are looking to retire - UI Developer Empower Employee Review

1.0
30 Apr 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The cafeteria snack bar is lovely, and you can get your meals deducted right out of your earnings! With the gym, post office, dry cleaners and health clinic, its like you can just stay in their campus and have no reason to leave. The security team is friendly and great at their jobs, as well as the maintenance crew.

Cons

The corporate culture is one that discourages innovation - and the creative/development team goes out of their way to come up with reasons not to do work. The platform used is very out of date - and does not allow all but the simplest of front end development. Anything using current technologies (node, html5 - css3, backbone, js templating or even jquery) is highly discouraged if even possible. In my department there was no talking to coworkers allowed - and all internet access is blocked, so if you need external research (forums, stack overflow, etc) to code, you have to go against company policy and use your personal hotspot. My boss would call at 3 or 4 am regularly because of a photoshop emergency or needing a JS mockup ready for a 7am presentation. Everything is urgent, and other people's emergencies are your emergencies too. Plan on backstabbing, infighting and devisiveness. People work hard trying not to work. Great West's general work atmosphere is the exact opposite of collaborativeness. Keep your guard up.

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5.0
18 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Empower fully supports work life balance. They also support and encourage community service. I like the fact that they match not only by monetary contributions, they also match actual volunteer hours with money. Management at all levels is committed and invested in you professionally and personally.

Cons

None that I have found.

2.0
22 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It is a consistent paycheck in an industry that isn't going anywhere. The benefits are average to slightly below average. If you are lucky, your immediate manager will be a real person and not just a faceless suit.

Cons

A caution to the culture : Empower is more interested in APPEARING to be a good place to work instead of actually being a good place to work. The employees were instructed by HR to leave a Glassdoor review IF we enjoy working at Empower. They made no mention of everyone leaving honest feedback regardless of their feelings about the company. That is incredibly telling about the culture and priorities of the company.

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