ConocoPhillips Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Pros

Benefits Package, Amenities, Opportunities, Recognition for work done.

Cons

Everyone is all about work. Teams are not as close as other companies.

Pros

Beautiful facility, pleasant environment, the people who are nice are REALLY nice.

Cons

No true vision or plans for managing retail & marketing, priorities and goals for current year change without explanation or time for annual plan to gain traction, very political, innovation and creative problem solving not encouraged, department managers hired and retained despite poor performance in managing staff.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to separate downstream from upstream. Downstream will never get the focus it deserves when competing against the high profitability of Exploration and Production.

Pros

-Overall good company
-safety comes first
- cares about employees
-Faire bonuses and compensation

Cons

- poor upper management
- unknown identity (technology leader-integrated-independent-???)
- poor communication from upper management
- unproductive competition between employees
- poor training for employees

Advice to Senior Management

Too much focus on short term plans and share price. Need to make your mind what company you want ?

Pros

Benefits, salary, growth and opportunity

Cons

need to offer retirement packages to 20+ year people to get fresh blood into the company

Pros

Safe place to work
You can move to good projects if you demonstrate your skills
Management is respectful
Good place to learn an gain experience

Cons

Low salaries
Bad bonuses
If you are in a bad project it is difficult to be known
Many layoffs in recent years. To much for a big company

Advice to Senior Management

Management is good but it is good they must think that people works for money, not just for being in a nice place

Pros

Good Pay
Good Benefits
Managers are flexible
Great Houston campus with a nice gym and soccer field
19/30s are a big plus

Cons

Communication could be better between Senior Mgt and workers
Still struggling with the Conoco and Phillips blended culture since the merger

Advice to Senior Management

Please take the time to better communicate with the organization. We do not like suprises any more than you do.

Pros

Highly motivated, highly professional atmosphere. The company takes very good care of its employees.

Cons

Expect to work long work weeks

Advice to Senior Management

It would be nice to see more promotions from within the company.

Pros

flexible schedule working environment good

Cons

houston large space training goods

Advice to Senior Management

strong character

Pros

Open environment where you can ask quesions
Unlimited training modules to help in development
Lots of seasoned employees willing to share and help
Great amount of inconsistent business practices that allow employees unlimited opportunities to deliver results & make their mark
Lean and mean
Not a lot of layers
Good visibility to leadership and upper management

Cons

Management will not deviate from the standard promotion cycle
Leadership change out causes instability and negatively impacts organizations progress
Mass amount of unpolished employees
Lack of diversity
Supervisors need more training
Supervisor selection process needs to be revisited
Too many individual contributors in management roles

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more personel developmnet opportunities for employees
Solicit feedback and then follow through
Uphold integrity during performance reviews
Improve supervisor selection process and provide better training for supervisors

Pros

19/30 days we get one extra day off a year
401K matching is great
Free health insurance is great
Overall great benefits

Cons

I am in Global Procurement and have been with the company 3.5 years. I hope to be gone by next year. I find the GPS organization very depressing. Bad leadership and no real growth. Other parts of the company seem to be good though.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide advancement to the people that are in your organization and stop trying to force them to do things they don't want to do such as relocate to bad areas b/c it benefits you and not their development.