Hydro One reviews

4.2

81% would recommend to a friend

(509 total reviews)

Mark Poweska

95% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

Hydro One has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 509 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Hydro One 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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509 reviews
1.0
Dec 3, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- Good Salary. - Free lunch regularly. - 3-5 hour meetings where we don't have to do anything.

Cons

Working at the Orangeville location. Here’s some of the many cons at this place: - Managers aren’t leaders. They are micromanaging dictators with no leadership skills. - Managers have zero people skills and lack a conscience. - Managers incessantly bully. Specifically mob bullying and gang up on individual employees. - Managers act extremely entitled. It’s to the extent where they become completely ignorant and arrogant. - Managers treat employees like slaves. Robotic interactions with subordinates. Not a family-oriented place at all. - Managers here are the type of people who hide behind lies like a bunch of sewer rats. - I’m pretty sure these managers are psychopaths. - A manager I considered a close friend for years, turned out to be the most unsupportive and deceitful. At the end of my career I would like to reflect on all the good work and positive impact I’ve created instead of all the employees I’ve stomped on. - If you meet management you’ll notice they either have missing teeth, are overweight, have some kind of mental psychosis, have chronic health issues, and smoke. Basically the exact opposite of what someone who practices health and safety should look like. - Managers are all in-bred country folk who have guns, love to hunt and stay cooped up in barns. - Homophobia is on the list. Casually calling employees ‘gay’ or ‘queer’ to them or in a meeting is not out of the ordinary. - Fair treatment at the Orangeville location doesn’t exist. - HR and union are just as corrupt and ultimately useless. - Lots of double standard nonsense. How these people function off of such negativity is beyond me. How they are allowed to behave like this I understand because they are all in a group. As individuals they probably wouldn't even know what to do with themselves. Pathetic.

1.0
Apr 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get paid a lot. Feel bad for the rate payers though the entire time. That's about it for pros. I'm trying to fill the pros space with text. Kind of sad.

Cons

- Everyday I was harassed and bullied by management. It was an extremely disrespectful and terrible work experience. - The HR department and Union reps did absolutely nothing for me when I asked for help. They swept everything under the rug. They will always side with senior managers. Really goes to show that this company doesn't care about employees or customers at all. Very fake and sneaky. - Managers use isolation to bully employees they don't like. Dealing with fully grown adults behaving like spoiled children makes you question how these people are managing in the first place. This is a workplace not a school yard. Extremely unprofessional. - Managers withhold information, resources, and support if they don't like you. - Managers use verbal abuse: homophobic, racist, sexist, insults and status remarks are made commonly. - Managers spread lies and gossip to target other employees against you. They wolf pack bully. - Some kind of hidden agenda is going on here with upper management. Continuous secretive meetings about gossip, how to slight employees and sneak things below the unions radar. - The company focuses on safety yet I saw daily infringements of policy and union code. A lot of it goes unnoticed because senior management is locked-arms in how they deal with things. You might as well throw the rule book in the toilet. - If no bullying happened here, more would get done work wise. Much less injuries and accidents would happen overall. I'm guessing millions of rate payers dollars would be saved. - Extremely corrupt workplace with little regard for employees. Employees are basically guinea pigs. - Management acts entitled, condescending, ignorant, arrogant and rude. They believe they are better than everyone else. - Managers are sadistic narcissists. They care the world about themselves, and treat employees like garbage. - Hard work goes unrecognized, others will take credit for your work by force, and you will be silenced. - Just a sad, pathetic and terrible place to work. My soul got sucked dry here. I found myself burnt out everyday. - Greatest day of my life was not having to return to that hell hole. Hoping to raise awareness of this terrible workplace. Hoping this post doesn't get taken down - starting to believe HR is removing my posts. I'm only telling the truth. I don't recommend working here. Stay Away if you value your sanity!

1.0
Jan 12, 2017

Lazy

Recommend
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Pros

Improving my euchre game. Sleeping on the job

Cons

Almost everyone there is a bunch of lazy, whiny dog breeders

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