Ballard Power reviews

3.9

66% would recommend to a friend

(200 total reviews)
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Randall MacEwen

54% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Ballard Power has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 200 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ballard Power employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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200 reviews
1.0
Jun 1, 2020

Terrible culture

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Pros

Cutting-edge green products, free EV charging

Cons

Lack of organization; extremely poor middle & upper mgmt; no HR support for employees; lots of silo thinking and lack of cooperation; no accountability or responsibility (you can basically do - or NOT do - whatever you want with no oversight and no repercussions, so most of the work is actually done by a few conscientious people from each team - the same people who post here that they are overworked - while the rest do nothing); no supervision; no on-boarding process; outdated software, equipment, documentation, intranet, processes, etc.; glaring decay and inefficiency everywhere you look; personal laptops that are useless because you are not allowed to alter anything on them; no publication standards or documentation staff; no training department ... I could go on

2.0
May 17, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility, Sustainable Energy, Work from home option, brainstorming projects/improvements events (CSIS) twice a year. Match RRSP up to 6% of salary per year. Good health benefits. Okay amount of vacation days (15 days).

Cons

Poor senior management and terrible functional team leaders in stack engineering department. Using outdated software technology solutions. Dont spend enough time understanding problems and solutions from first principles which often causes failures and headaches down the line. Poor compensation/underpaid engineers and the company overwork you and normalizes working more than 8 hrs per day without overtime pay. A lot of good talent has left the company in the past couple years for similar reasons.

1.0
Jan 5, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- Cafeteria - Not much overtime expected

Cons

- Lack of a team environment, expect to work alone - Management have too much on their plates and seem unknowing of activities and tasks within their teams - Accomplishments will go unnoticed

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