CLP is a great company, but it is pulled behind by its dismal and appalling IT.
Pros
CLP is Monopoly in HK, no financial pressure with EXCELLENT pay. Even IT Senior Manager(MP1) grade can get 2M+ annual package with ORSO up to 17.5%. IT Manager(MP2) grade can get 1.5M+. IT Senior Analyst/ IT Lead(MP3-4) can reach 1M+ annual package. Yearly increment is stable as Monopoly does not be impacted by economic. As no commercial competition and CLP IT does not involve OT(Power Generation and Power Grid). IT does not play any critical role in business. Working pressure is mainly coming from internal, not external. CLP management is made aware of disoriented IT and start to remediate it by hiring a new outside Group CDO. The environment may be changed soon.
Cons
There is no effective governance and control within IT. Teams are divided and there is no collaboration. Decisions are made regardless of published standards. Some leaders are dominant, and they can bypass formal protocol and do things of their own free will. Since the SLT is divided, it is who you know and who you work for that matters. This is in contrary to all those published slogans and hence very discouraging to people who want to get things done. Management support is clearly lacking. Some managers are not professional. They don’t have CLP’s best interest in their hearts. Instead, they play political games, sabotage work, and destroy spirits by criticizing junior workers with patronizing attitudes. It is both a discouraging and humiliating experience to work with them. Management has failed to deliver what they have promised, and those slogans are empty words. In 2020 CLP IT Re-Org, German CIO claimed that CLP IT was not an elderly garden in public media and every staffs need to take re-assessment with interview again. Definitely, he is lying as privileged guys are exempted. If you still have passion in IT and want to be IT professionals instead of politicians, you should not join this Elderly Garden. The IT workforce is either incompetent, lazy or don't care. For those few remaining staff who still have a passionate, they are frustrated by the arrogant leadership and ineffective staff. Simple things take months to get done and most staff are simply message routers. Nobody dares to point out problems and will either remain silent or pay lip services to management mandates. It is surprising to see that the German CIO follows the traditional Chinese management style, i.e. ruled by people rather than by laws.