IESO Employee Reviews

Opportunities for young eager workers. Highly competitive, difficult to climb the corporate ladder here. Start out in the job you want as you will be expected to remain in it for several years.

Pros

Good pay

Cons

Highly competitive

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Great place to work

Legal Counsel (Current Employee) - Toronto, ON - 21 August 2023

Interesting and challenging work. Great team - everyone always willing to help and explain. Flexible hybrid policy. It is a little silo'd but overall it is a great place to work. No complaints.

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Good Work Life Balance and Good Pay

Intern (Former Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 11 June 2022

Did pretty standard co-op student intern things. Ran some reports in excel and did some reports. The worklife balance here is really good and the pay for full timers is goo too.

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No recognition of work. High stress. Lacking diversity.

Program Analyst (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 18 October 2021

They mostly hire contract positions because they don't want to spend money on related benefits. No diversity in manager and upper level positions. You can create efficiency and work long hours, the management does not care. Toxic work culture.

Pros

Pay

Cons

job security, long hours, toxic work culture

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Lack of diversity in management & leadership

Senior Analyst (Current Employee) - Adelaide - 22 August 2021

This place lacks diversity in it's management & leadership. Some POC groups are totally treated badly, this was clearly shown in it's most recent Diversity & Inclusion survey and it does not look like new CEO will change anything about it, yes it's just a check mark for the Board of Directors. Just check the Executive Leadership Team on the website, you will not see a POC, yep this sets the tone for management or supervisor levels below the VPs.

Pros

Pay

Cons

Racism, nepotism, etc

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Insights into IESO

Based on 4 survey responses

What people like

Ability to meet personal goals
Time and location flexibility
Fair pay for job

Areas for improvement

Inclusive work environment
Support from manager
Feeling of personal appreciation

Toxic Culture

Analyst (Current Employee) - Toronto, ON - 12 May 2021

Every level of management is designed to protect itself. No feedback is used for growth in the upward direction. It’s essentially high school. Probably why they failed their Diversity and Inclusion employee reviews and the follow up solutions were never followed up on. Great pay and benefits so I guess there’s that. They also managed the stay at home/Covid thing well.Keep my mouth shut and tow the line.

Pros

Pay

Cons

Everything else

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Stressful. Demanding. Intimidating, boring and frustrating!

Current Employee (Current Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 14 March 2021

QA in charge, does not guide, teach, orient, lead or direct..just demands. Union takes fees since day 1 and protects the company. No room for growth!!

Pros

Long hours and weekends a must...I want to leave soon!

Cons

An organized management with nepotism and "my way or highway" culture.

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Great place to work!

Pay Services Associate (Current Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 7 February 2019

Lots of work to do, different every day, learning about the collective agreements, the work hours are very flexible, management is very easy to work with.

Pros

Flexible work hours

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great working atmosphere, great people

Handy Person/Security Guard (Former Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 28 March 2018

great job working alongside great individuals and balanced with personal tasks. nice diverse workplace. management were always pleasant the interact with.

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overall okie

Student Research Assistant (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 28 March 2018

Overall okie. everyone that worked around is friendly and helpful. I have learned allot from my seniors and supervisor. the hardest part is obviously to keep your superiors happy wit your work

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Challenging and fun workplace.

Analyst Telecom & Networks (Former Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 27 February 2018

Challenging environment with latest network and security setup with content upgrades and enhancements. Good work life balance and good learning opportunity.

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Generally not good

N/A (Former Employee) - Oakville, ON - 26 February 2018

Existing culture is self protected. Have to observe many things. No real suggestion is given when coming to profession development issues. Supervisor rarely gives useful advice.

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Career

Independent Electricity System Operator (Current Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 31 January 2018

No room for career advancement - it's job that you retire in - no training - you loose skills - not a place for those wanting to get ahead.nothing more to add.

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great people, excellent benefits, interesting work and industry

Administrative Assistant (Contract) (Former Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 29 May 2017

government agency so pay and benefits above average. hard to get into though as it is a unionized environment and only way really to get in is to go in on contract and even then no guarantees. management was supportive . a very clean healthy work environment. work involved preparing detailed reports, supporting director/CFO, administrative duties.

Pros

work environment and benefits

Cons

hard to get in permanently

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Great people

Independent Electricity System Operator (Former Employee) - Toronto - 28 June 2013

Great people to work with. Strong industry knowledge and great management

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Excellent Place to work

Business Analyst (Former Employee) - Mississauga, Ontario - 14 May 2013

Very good place to learn. There are two issue with this organization. One, unless you are an Electrical Engineer you will not be considered for some of the better jobs here. Two, since the pay, benefits and package is so great all the senior employees try to get their kids or other relatives into the organization.