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    SSE Reviews

    Updated 18 October 2018
    302 reviews

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    SSE CEO Alistair Phillips-Davies
    Alistair Phillips-Davies
    133 Ratings

    302 Employee Reviews

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    Pros

    • "Good work life balance and talented colleagues" (in 10 reviews)

    • "Good benefits, some very talented people in place in the business" (in 15 reviews)

    Cons

    • "Far too much health and safety focus" (in 18 reviews)

    • "I was told that the RTSD Field Engineer roles were not as stable as made out by Senior management" (in 15 reviews)

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    1. "Excellent employer"

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      Current Employee - Quote Production Administrator in Cardiff, Wales
      Current Employee - Quote Production Administrator in Cardiff, Wales

      I have been working at SSE full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Benefits, salary, holiday, pension, shares

      Cons

      Car parking, communication, nanny state

    2. "Poor management"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at SSE full-time

      Pros

      Excellent salary, benefits and great colleagues

      Cons

      Poor management and high expectations

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    3. "Nice place to work"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at SSE part-time

      Pros

      Pay
      Coworkers
      Perks
      Food
      Weekend off

      Cons

      Stressful
      Shifts
      Snakes
      Overpriced canteen
      Long hours

    4. "SSE"

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      Current Employee - Project Manager in High Wycombe, England
      Current Employee - Project Manager in High Wycombe, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at SSE full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      stable employment, company usually hires staff far after they are needed - the upside is that the staff turnover is not so high

      Cons

      Too many meetings
      Poor performance review mechanisms, with far too heavy a weighting torward toward safety audits (for those who are office based)
      Far too much health and safety focus
      Usual corporate nonsense

      Advice to Management

      my advice to management would be to make more effort on reward and recrecognition

    5. "Decent"

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      Former Employee - Customer Service Representative in Portsmouth, South East England, England
      Former Employee - Customer Service Representative in Portsmouth, South East England, England
      Recommends

      I worked at SSE part-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      The people are lovely. I wanted to work in HR as my degree was in HR and the various HR representatives took the time out to ask around if I could gain any relevant work experience.

      Cons

      As I was a part timer and was on annual leave for two weeks, I came back to find myself in a new department having to shadow a colleague who didn’t know what they were doing. Should have been better focus on training.

      Advice to Management

      I remember there was an occasion where we spent an hour listening to an important business update, only to be told later that day that we were no longer going to implement the update.

    6. "Intense"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at SSE full-time

      Pros

      Put through some good training

      Cons

      Felt like i was being brainwashed to hit targets

    7. "Good for people with no goals in life"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at SSE full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Relatively good pay
      Easy job
      Paid overtime

      Cons

      Managers constantly on your back
      Forget about ‘career growth’ if you don’t know senior managers closely
      Can give you ridiculous shifts
      Share scheme is a scam (got £12 back after paying in £500)

    8. "Fun company for the right person"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at SSE full-time

      Pros

      SSE is a fun company and the atmosphere is pleasant.

      Cons

      High focus on cross selling even for non-sales roles and there can be a lack of manager support at times.

    9. "Mixed bag"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at SSE full-time

      Pros

      Growing company, with big ambitions

      Cons

      cautious internal governance hinders opportunities

      Advice to Management

      More doers needed

    10. Helpful (2)

      "Disgusting company."

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      Former Employee - Customer Service Representative in Carlisle, England
      Former Employee - Customer Service Representative in Carlisle, England
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at SSE full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Salary and benefits fantastic

      Cons

      Disgusting sickness policy and probation period . Computer system is shocking outdated, slow and needs serious updating .

      Advice to Management

      Look at the managers that are incredible lazy and do nothing , review the sickness policy .
      Do you ever wonder why there is such a high turnover of staff

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