ScottishPower reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(521 total reviews)
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Keith Anderson

86% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

ScottishPower has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 521 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ScottishPower 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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521 reviews
1.0
Feb 14, 2016

Shocking company since the Spaniards took over

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good pay pension some of the benefits are good childcare vouchers sick pay flexible working hours training if you want to progress

Cons

Not a progressive company not investing in the energy market or new power plant Treated like slaves not interested in the workers and how they are treating those that are being made redundant

1.0
Mar 12, 2024
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Pros

Good Salary Good Financial Benefits

Cons

Everything. No onboarding. No Training. No Communication. No Management. No hiring plan You are expected to just pick up and handle queries without any prior knowledge. Work is just sporadically dumped on you again without any background or training or knowledge on the given subject. Decisions seem to be made without any consideration or knock on effect that they may have to different processes. Workloads are unmanageable and there is no workload management tools in place so management are unaware of how much work is put on one individual or what stage the work is at. Generally timescales aren't given for tasks either and when they are generally they are a short timescale and team leaders aren't willing to step up and challenge it or even be happy for staff to challenge it. I requested training for my role to which I was told no. I was told at interview Scottish Power was a great place and had lots of training opportunities and if I wanted to train up and learn a different role sometime down the line that would be possible. Training isn't even provided for the role that was applied for. It seems that there was no hiring plan in place when hiring me and my teammates. A few individuals already speaking of leaving after a short period and I will likely do the same. I have had bad experiences at companies in the past, but even those I have seen as bad it normally takes approx 6 months for the cracks to show and I have never left before 1 year in a role - at Scottish power there isn't even a foundation and I was considering leaving after 1 month.

1.0
Feb 11, 2018
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Pros

The pay and some conditions are good and this is mainly down to the great effort of trade unions who work very hard on behalf of its members and it also benefits non union staff as the company uses the union agreement to award non union staff with the same pay and conditions.

Cons

Ageism, sexism & favouritism is rife. Currently the company has deemed it positive to get rid of 250 permanent staff. Agency are becoming far more common and are seen as a expendable cheaper option. Very poor recruitment prospects for internal staff the use of a STAR interview process is seen as a joke and many staff have either not applied for a job vacancy or pulled out of job vacancy applications when it is found out who the job vacancy is for.

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