BP Reviews

Pros

The benefits and salary packages are extraordinary. The feeling of acomplishment really shows through when everyone works together.

Cons

The cost of living in the Los Angeles area is quite expensive.

Advice to Senior Management

Continued reviews; with rewards and penalties, could help improve the quality of work preformed.

Pros

Good training and access to technology and technical experts

Cons

Too much unproductive time in meetings

Pros

Stability, growth, and diversity of experiences. BP is a stable company in a stable industry with many opportunities domestic and international.

Cons

Working here sometimes is much like working for the government where you feel that your efforts do very little to change the direction of things.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to focus the organization on compliance with the robust management systems you have put in place and stand true to non-tolerance of non-compliance.

Pros

Reasonably intelligent peers, have to be to have survived
You can take on more work and additional responsibilities any time you want
Open networking policy

Cons

They will find a solution that requires no cost, which means talking more about everything and checking and rechecking everything over and over again, and making existing staff do more work.
Senior levels get where they are by designing hatchet type restructurings.
The old guard didn't do anything well, so everything needs fixing.
BP will not invest money in training or technology. All training is by internal employees who are unqualified to do so.
They take no chances.
The successful manager must: love BP, love meetings, never speak their mind, never disagree, talk a lot of nonsense, stroke superiors, give average reviews and make subordinates feel expendable and lucky to have a job.
No raises.
Your job is to make yourself replaceable, doing so may keep you employed another year if you are lucky.

Advice to Senior Management

Admit you are wrong about just about everything, because you are.

Pros

good balance between work and life

Cons

there are too many management layers

Advice to Senior Management

Try to know more about business from practical perspective

Pros

Good pay, good bonuses, good work life balance, business casual atmosphere, they do promote training and education. Very educated and professional workforce.

Cons

Downsizing, reorganizing, and change for the sake of change itself. Employees never really feel appreciated when management is in constant change.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't just talk safety, live it.

Pros

most employees wear a happy face and friendly smile, some are helpful, others are concerned you are there to replace them

Cons

can't trust the friendly smile, very fluid environment, sometimes hard to get information needed to be effective

Advice to Senior Management

look at the positive results too, allow employees time learn their job to be effective in a very fluid environment

Pros

1) Training Opportunities
2) No judging company. No blame for mistakes
3) Challenge (firsd 3 yers) and Post challenge development programs
4) Good life - work balance
5) Multicultural
6) Good place for engineer to excel its knowledge in technical sites - a lot of support from management and other engineers and SDEs
7) Control of processes in place for every step
8) Organized process - no sudden changes
9) Good workplace , medical insurance , transportation and services
10) Sharematch program

Cons

1. Salary is low compared to other locations (For local workers - non expats)
2. A lot of complicated procersses - you do much more meetings and paperwork that engineering itself
3 Good time management and knowledge of office politics required to get promotion. Personal interconnections with Management is important as well
4. Very long development process (promotions) if you are not eager and do not work at weekends - much faster can get management position in service company.
5. Poor retention programmes, lack of flexibility in moving the people aroung
6 Ceased all international assignments programmes

Advice to Senior Management

More focus on retention.
Increase of salary and bonuses
International assignments for locals
increase limits for sharematch program

Pros

Career development programs are abundant

Cons

Complex culture; needs to establish yourself through informal network

Advice to Senior Management

Informal network

Pros

good environment. BP is a dynamic, exciting place to work. they hire exceptional people, and every one of them is empowered to think independently, take initiative and be innovative.

Cons

Can become very hectic. Much of the time is concerned with project and travelling situations. Would prefer to be involved in a less volatile environment