Petronas Reviews

Pros

Benefits in terms of staff developement is good. Petronas rewards staff who has performed excellently and also exercise consequence management for those who fail to deliver

Cons

Eventhough Petronas has many operating units and divisions, movement of staff between the divisions is not easy and this makes the motivation level to drop , hence increasing complacensy due to being in place too long

Advice to Senior Management

PETRONAS are spending too much money in hiring consultant which proposed many initiatives which are not relevent. The impact is on the working level who are bogged down with this unnecessary initiatives which eventually takes up time to execute more relevent core work. Need to go back to basic, not add on unrelated work.

Pros

excellent environment with kind collegues

Cons

got not enough high paid salary

Advice to Senior Management

do not let politician take petronas money

Pros

Tremendous opportunities for everybody to excel, a lot of challenges as well as freedom to build the business.

Cons

Salary not so attractive. Lack of guidance for new employee. Imbalance in workload distribution. Too rigid HR policy

Advice to Senior Management

Have sufficient middle managers, relook at compensation and distribution of workload. Look after the scarce resources - petro-technical staff

Pros

Provides ample good training
Good to long term employees
Large company with plenty opportunities if you have the right network

Cons

Uncompetitive, low salary
Heavy on top-down management approach
Middle management filled with incompetent managers
Need the right networking to advance in the company

Advice to Senior Management

Please remove the incompetent middle management which is hampering the development of the company
Need to provide better renumeration package to attract the right talent and retain current ones

Pros

Performance Appraisal and Salaries and fantastic

Cons

Very challenging and did not tolerate any wrongdoing. Need to be alert and perform faster

Advice to Senior Management

No at this moment

Pros

Freedom, good colleague, good working environment. good boss, good salary. Overall good experience.
i am really happy to work for Petronas.

Cons

Structural, lots of approval. lots of meetings, lots of review, lots of approval level. however it is very good working environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Increase salary, less structural, minimize of approval. lots of meetings, lots of review, lots of approval level. however it is very good working environment.

Pros

Because its in Kuala Lumpur City Center.Not too far from my house.
Giving me a lot of opportunities to learn.

Cons

To slow too climb up the manager position especially for the technical need to pass the system
.Compared to Schlumberger they got teir own specialisation

Advice to Senior Management

I think they need to change the skill group system make it more flexibable ,so all the technical guy can pursuit with their own specilasation

Pros

The salary have rises about RM4000 per month for fresh graduate.

Cons

Nowadays there are no health care provided by PETRONAS company to its employer.This happened because PETRONAS had to cut its expenses and cost based on their huge number of decreasing profit in 2009.

Advice to Senior Management

Sometimes when we were at the bottom, sacking your employment is not the best way to undergo the situation

Pros

Plenty of opportunities for career development. Petronas provide a platform for you to polish your skills to the very best.

Cons

Remuneration offered by Petronas seems to be very small among the competitors. If you want to be paid handsomely, then look for other companies.

Advice to Senior Management

Please review your remuneration of your engineers. The figures seem very small and not up to the satisfying level. Engineers don't come cheap.

Pros

Good place to learn about the oil and gas industry. Lots of trainings are given.

Cons

- Poor leadership
- Too political, does not reward performance accordingly, lack use of KPIs.
- Lacks flexibility, too much red tape and unnecessary paperwork. Everything is just too slow!
- Pro activeness or creativity amongst staff is not valued. i.e. almost everything needs to be top driven. When you want to initiate something, just forget about it unless you have strong management backup.
- Managers are dictators, does not accept ideas or arguments from subordinates. If you argue with them, they say you lack leadership qualities

"People leave, monkeys stay"

Advice to Senior Management

- Stop promoting monkeys
- Minimize red tape and improve organization flexibility
- Be more open minded
- Stop dictating and listen to your staff more!