Bloom Energy
San Jose, CA · founded 2001
Bloom Energy is a publicly traded (NYSE: BE) clean-energy hardware company that designs and manufactures solid-oxide fuel cells (its 'Energy Server') for on-site power, increasingly aimed at data centers and AI infrastructure. The culture is science- and mission-driven ('make clean, reliable energy affordable for all'), spun out of founder KR Sridhar's NASA-derived research, and it self-reports high engagement (81% engagement, 85% 'proud to work here' in its 2025 survey). Honest caveats: this is a capital-intensive manufacturing business, not a software shop, so a large share of the workforce is hourly manufacturing staff in Newark, DE and Fremont, CA, and the stock has historically been volatile.
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documented benefits (23)
| How leave is framed | equal_all_parents |
|---|---|
| Retirement match | offered |
| Stock purchase plan | yes |
| Equity | RSU |
| Financial advising | yes |
| HSA | yes |
| FSA | yes |
| Mental health | yes |
| PTO | offered |
| Flexible hours | yes |
| On-site gym | yes |
| Internal course catalog | yes |
| Catalog open to all roles | yes |
| Learning platform | yes |
| Offices | San Jose, CA, Newark, DE, Mumbai, India, Bangalore, India |
| Countries with offices | United States, Germany, South Korea, China, India |
| Median filed wage | $181,293 |
| Publicly traded | yes |
| Funding stage | Public |
| Life insurance | yes |
| Dental | yes |
| Vision | yes |
| Disability | yes |
what Bloom Energy pays
Median of 8 certified wages filed with the US Department of Labor: $181,293.
Half of Bloom Energy's certified filings fall between $171,741 and $250,000.
Source: US Department of Labor, FY2025 Q4. Read 2026-07-27.
notable perks
- Dec 2025 company-wide RSU grant: every worldwide employee below director level, including hourly manufacturing staff with 1+ year tenure, made a shareholder
the legal floor where they are
Set by law, not by Bloom Energy. It applies to every employer in CA.
| IVF cycles the state covers | California requires IVF from 1 January 2026, and only from large employers. SB 729 (2024) rewrote Health and Safety Code § 1374.55 so that a large group health care service plan contract 'issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, shall provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and fertility services, including a maximum of three completed oocyte retrievals with unlimited embryo transfers', following ASRM guidelines and using single embryo transfer where medically appropriate. Large group means 100 or more employees. Small group plans need only be OFFERED the coverage rather than provide it, religious employers are excluded, Medi-Cal managed care is exempt, and CalPERS plans are delayed to 1 July 2027. The original 1 July 2025 date was pushed back a budget trailer bill, AB 116 (2025). THE LIMIT THAT DECIDES WHETHER THIS REACHES YOU: a state insurance mandate binds only fully insured plans. A self-funded employer plan is governed federally under ERISA and is preempted, and KFF's 2025 employer survey puts 67% of covered workers — 80% at firms of 200 or more — in a self-funded plan. At most large California employers this law therefore does not apply, and the fertility benefit on the page is the company's own choice. (Senate Bill 729 (2024), which repealed and added Section 1374.55 of the Health and Safety Code and amended Section 10119.6 of the Insurance Code; the operative date was moved from 1 July 2025 to 1 January 2026 by Assembly Bill 116 (2025).) |
|---|---|
| Adoption leave the law gives | 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period on the placement of a child for adoption or foster care, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. There is no federal paid adoption leave. (Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(B) and 2612(c); eligibility at 29 U.S.C. 2611(2) and (4). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code.) |
| Pay when you are ill | No federal law requires any paid sick leave. The FLSA does not require payment for time not worked, and the FMLA gives 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period for a serious health condition, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. Any paid sick time comes from a state or city law, or from the employer's own choice. (Fair Labor Standards Act, per the Department of Labor's statement on payment for time not worked; Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(D) and 2612(c). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code on govinfo.gov.) |
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