BP Reviews

Pros

Benefits and hours
People and experience

Cons

Salary and growth
Management and leadership style

Advice to Senior Management

Standardization and streamlining the organizational salary and growth processes
Reevaluating and updating/upgrading leadership and management models

Pros

Level of involvement in your career development is high. Great people to work with - competency of top tier leadeship is at times in question.

Cons

Competency of top tier leadeship is at times in question.

Pros

The new and renewed focus on everybody working for the overall bottom line of the company and a great work/life balance.

Cons

The constant reorganizations that have led to some confusion as to who reports to who leading to the recent safety issues.

Pros

1 good places to work at, (comapre with other local companies - Azerbaijan).
2 base salary is better than average base pay in country.
3 provides good social package
4 uses late technologies on field
5 a lot overseas experties, so you can get different views on problem.

Cons

1.Career progress, is not as fast as you would like to have
2. Have to go through pleanty of mandatory trainings/courses/roles/activities, which some times is not what you need, even when you give a strong reasons for that.
3 base pay amount has significant gap with average salary in oil industry worldwide
4 people listen to you, but not acting
5 Can not get international assigment even for short period of time

Advice to Senior Management

Make working in BP more flexiable, give more options, higher base pay and faster career gorwth...listen to what people wants and needs.

Pros

Good support for employees, reasonable pay and benefits, no expectation to work weekends. Provides quite a bit of variety for staff

Cons

The company changes direction every 1-2years and focus more on short-term gains than long-term value creation, also there is tolerance for systemic underperformance in some sections

Advice to Senior Management

focus on operational excellence, worry less about fads or trendy issues (e.g. climate change etc) if it had done this, maybe deepwater incident would not have happened and company would be prospering better.

Pros

Good experience; lots of smart people

Cons

Limited promotions unless you are one of the favored few.

Pros

good salary for work you have to do

Cons

bad culture exists currently and no one is happy

Advice to Senior Management

replace all Manager level employees

Pros

The compensation was good in the beginning. And they gave you q great deal of latitude in completing assigned task/s.

Cons

The compensation was good in the beginning and then they reclassified the position and cut the compensation by 40%. Better to have an ironclad contract if you work for them.

Advice to Senior Management

As large of a corporation as BP is and given the unprecedented profits they're earning, there is no reason to treat employees as they do/did.

Pros

salary, culture, work, atmosphere, law

Cons

no promotions, no hike, political issue

Advice to Senior Management

no

Pros

Good retirement benefits of about 15% pension + 401K match. Usually good life/work balance, you can take weekends off unless there is a pressing project deadline. Free gym onsite. Not as hectic as a bank. Politics are much easier to deal with than a bank. Management is flexible about outside responsibilities, appointments, etc.

Cons

Pay is lower than a bank. Expectations are high for job performance, and oftentimes unreasonable. Recognition for hard work is not really present. Management oftentimes gives in to front office demands without realistically assessing what it takes to meet those demands - in terms of man hours required to do the job correctly. Understaffed - employees are stretched far too thin. Market risk in Houston in the "model" risk group for BP, which means the workload and project demands are far higher than any other location.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should reflect on employee contributions and meaningfully recognize those who make the group successful. There is not a sense of long term commitment of management for employees and their growth within the company. More team building would go a long way.