Intelligent Energy Employee Reviews

Great people and brilliant product. The idea out performs the plan though. Often badly under resourced for projects which results in resource being allocated from other projects, resulting in more stress and delays for everyone.

Pros

Awesome people and great camaraderie

Cons

Poor planning and over promising

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Good team - great ideas

Principal Engineer (Former Employee) - Loughborough, Leicestershire - 21 September 2023

Good team - detailed work ethic - great ideas - tech was not ready for market.. I sincelrely hope it comes good eventually - could have been ahead of its time.

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Assembly and Test person (Current Employee) - Loughborough, Leicestershire - 16 August 2023

They seem to be good at talking the talk but the reality doesn't match up.What looks like good opportunity for progression can be completely hampered depending on who your line manager is. If your progression doesn't go through until November then you won't be eligible for next years annual pay review and you can bet someone will make sure your application is held off long enough to ensure that's the case.The company handbook states what the annual pay review should be (in line with inflation) and it never is and gets pushed back later and later each year.Poorly defined accountability statements almost guarantees you're doing far more than your job actually says but you also can't jump grades in progression to match what you're actually doing.Moving came with the promise of expansion and moving to a new site which has apparently been on the cards for years and always falls through for some reason or other.The internal communication could be significantly better as there is a focus on figures that just feel made up while production just seems to suffer as products are to be built that never got properly finished at the design stage, but they force builds early to get to customers that inevitably come back for repair.There is a real mismatch in the priorities so people are pulling in different directions. With four distinct branches of the company it would make sense to split things up significantly more to avoid everyone trying to pull on the same resources.

Pros

Sick pay, nice colleagues, referral scheme (not applicable for hiring operators though), discount scheme for lots of retailers

Cons

No working from home, too many meetings

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Good enough company

Senior Mechanical Analysis Engineer Research & Product Development (Former Employee) - Loughborough - 3 July 2020

Medium size company with relaxed work culture, casual dress code, cantine and cafeteria on-site with beautiful green area and lake/pond in front of offices (very nice for lunch breaks). I think it's a great company to work especially for graduate engineers where one can learn a lot about fuel cell although employe's training could be improved. Work hours are not very flexible but has shorter Friday which is alright.

Pros

Learn a lot about fuel cells technology

Cons

People are a bit reserved

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Innovative culture

Principal Electronics Engineer (Former Employee) - United Kingdom - 11 February 2020

Great environment that breeds innovation and cooperative working. Benefits are really good and there is a family culture about them. Plenty to do and there is freedom to move around departments so one can learn more about the technology.

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Electrical Technician (Former Employee) - Loughborough, Leicestershire - 30 August 2018

Very good company to work for very interesting and challenging to work for this company. Like fuel cell assembly testing like validation testing making testing Rig and development and designin for fuel cell technology

Pros

Have a monthly meeting with breakfast from company

Cons

40 hr and flexible hours

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Excellent Working Environment

IT Support Analyst (Current Employee) - Loughborough - 29 September 2017

Nice place, nice people. Technology is very good, desire to use latest tools is very good, ability to sell a product is more questionable. Definitely worth joining if they can begin to sell products and become profitable.

Pros

Good work life balance, nice office location and people

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productive and fun place to work

Research Engineer (II) (Former Employee) - Loughborough - 7 August 2014

The staff and offic environment there were great. Also the lunches were good too. The only issue it that it is in Loughborough.

Pros

good people

Cons

It's in Loughborough

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Productive and fun place to work

Senior research engineer, 2D micro fuel cell (Current Employee) - Loughborough - 7 January 2014

Intelligent Energy is an intellectual property rich company with over 23 years in R&D, resulting in over 550 patents (granted or pending). We specialise in the development of modular, low carbon fuel cell systems for our blue chip partners and their global mass markets. With over 300 staff based across operating sites and offices around the world, we develop technology that is tailored to suit our partners’ power technology needs – collaborating from early in the design process and embedding our proprietary technology platform into their products. We work in three market sectors – automotive, stationary power and consumer electronics. It is our ecosystem of partners that is at the heart of Intelligent Energy.

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Exciting R & D fuel Cell Company

Finace assistant for 5 1/2 years (Current Employee) - Loughborough, Leicestershire - 20 November 2013

Intelligent has grown dramatically in the past 6 years from approximately 50 employees to over 300 employees. IE now have a fuel cell UPP mobile/tablet etc. product about to be available in various countries. I have learnt a lot of new tasks while working at IE. I now feel its time to move on to a smaller company where I can use my skills.