BG Group Reviews

Pros

BG Group is currently led by a pretty smart CEO who has surrounded himself with a fairly able team of EVPs. Frank Chapman and his team have made some very good calls over the years which have resulted in general in BG being in a strong business position today. On the whole the company is a good one to work for with commitment and abilities rewarded to a large extent.
The work environment and the reward packages vary but BG is a generally fair company and will do what it takes to keep talent on board.

Cons

One of the problems with BG is that it has not managed to assume it's own character as a company. So it has kept cutting and thriving from it's peers. Being a midsize organisation, it probably is an efficient way to go but in the end, there are at times a measure of confusion on the tactical approaches to be adopted in moving forward. In the main though, the overall strategic focus is largely correct.

Advice to Senior Management

It is necessary to maintain the environment of allowing people to feel comfortable to feedback on all types of news within the organisation (good, bad or indifferent). At times people feel the need to reflect to management what they want to hear. This cannot be a good thing for the organisation.

Pros

The best reason to work at BG is money and the high growth of the company

Cons

Poor management generally speaking. Management is heavily interested in getting good packages.
Most of the times politics inside BG is everything.

Pros

Nice work environment, good work life balance. They do treat their staff very well generally.

Cons

They are over the top on the Health and Safetly at times. They apply a one size fits all approach, rather than tailoring it to the country, and the individual site.
Some of their processes in finance are archaic. They need to move forwards with technology.

Pros

global firm, but retained caring and supportive culture of a smaller company
emphasis on safety and employee satisfaction
open and helpful people, great opportunities to learn

Cons

cannot think of serious shortfalls; maybe this is due to limited experience in a company. And I think It is not worth mentioning minor disadvantages, as with a right attitude you can easily cope with them.

Pros

The production is increasing, multiple locations worldwide mean it's interesting to live in different cultures, the graduate training program is good and the working environment is very safe. Remuneration is also good.

Cons

The UK head office HR department is very large and parochial. It seems to have little understanding of how best to manage life abroad. The recruitment and transfer process is slow and induction for mid-career hires is minimal.

Advice to Senior Management

Please provide less soft information on company performance (e.g. qualitative evaluations of corporate culture). More hard financial data and forecasts would be welcome.

Pros

good for graduates because of the exposure they get. overall at times cost cutting happens in training which is not good.

Cons

cost cutting and ability to change the profile

Pros

The package. The long term investment in the North Sea

Cons

As a smaller company than i was in less opportunity for development but its a growing company and still big

Advice to Senior Management

People are the most important part of a company, look after them.

Pros

Competitive Remuneration
Fair Treatment business policy

Cons

Work Life Balance needs to be improbed

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more people

Pros

Salary is above industry average
Location

Cons

Expanding too quickly to cope internally, people there often have no clue where their responsibility lies or should do.
Management sort to cover their butts 1st and foremost.
Alot of me vs them mentality.
Management allows certain unreasonable behaviours to manifest to the point where it irritates other employees.
Lack of communications from management to staff.
Chronic lack of support staff because they need to get approvals from HQ to hire extra contractors even when eg some payments are well over 365 days old... (to small time vendors...)
Alot of issues with high turnover of staff and no one is there to pick up their work.
Hiring too many contractors.

Advice to Senior Management

Show more leadership skills, infact they all should be retrain again...

Pros

Great opportunities to learn new stuff.

Cons

Stress and workload, work life balance.

Advice to Senior Management

We need to rest sometimes.