Petronas Reviews

I have been working at Petronas full-time for more than a year

Pros – Learning Opportunities are a lot.. Having good reputation. Management has Strong vision and mission

Cons – Very top to bottom approach.
Conflict of interest between personal career goals and management planning leads to higher turnover rate.
Loyal staffs embrace the culture, but those who have left the company blamed the culture. So there are gaps exist.
Very much rank-emphasizing. Managers and above are untouchable. Executives are just executor.

Advice to Senior Management – Engagement with new generations are important to overcome high turnover rate which is steadily increasing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Petronas full-time for more than a year

Pros – free time, flexi hour, more on paper work and learning processes.

Cons – do work depends on company culture

Advice to Senior Management – Everyone should be sync and work out the same goal together.
Success stories or problems should brief to team from time to time.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Petronas full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good for starter and graduate
Opportunities to attend many technical and non-technical courses

Cons – Far too many incompetent expats rooting in the system
Unfair and weak policies by HR
Current salary scheme for local staff is pathetic
Key problem lies in no solid retention plan for high performer

Advice to Senior Management – Enforced competency, accountability more transparently
Treasure employee

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Petronas full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – able to get the desired training.

Cons – need to justify for even free trainings relevant to the job.

Advice to Senior Management – get the right people who are passionate about people to lead the organisation.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Petronas full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Flexible working environment, self driven job, meet people and work in interesting places, leadership visibility etc.

Cons – Low salary compared to other O&G player

Advice to Senior Management – Give reward and benefits on par with other player

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Petronas full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – There are plenty of opportunities and room to grow in Petronas. Company really puts in effort to develop its staff. Everyone should be proud to work for a company like Petronas.

Cons – Staff tends to be more worried about their KPI than doing good work, and spends more time crafting a good performance review. Few have the sense of true accountability, and prefer to have "team" consensus to distribute accountability. Most won't call a spade as spade, and thus, some problems are never solved because the root problem is not addressed.

Advice to Senior Management – Upper management has been very good and Petronas is heading in the right direction for its next phase of growth.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Petronas full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – If you find a good expatriate boss, they will guide and nurture you well.

Cons – Racism and favoritism is very evident . HR management is non-existent. Gen-X superiors in general are not very smart nor cooperative. Young engineers are expected fend for themselves and usually made a scapegoat for issues. Politics is always used to gain leverage and manipulate employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Go back to PIPE

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Petronas as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Very relax and you get to enjoy yourself at the company while having an amazing time working. The experience you gain is priceless, and you get the sense of community. Every Friday morning, you would have some sort of small party, which is quite nice on my opinion.

Cons – Sometime it gets to slow in terms of work. I think there is too many people working here

Advice to Senior Management – Reduce the workers, i find that there is too many workers that there is barely aything to do sometimes

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Petronas full-time for less than a year

Pros – one of the biggest oil and gas company.

Cons – salary a bit low if compare to shell

Advice to Senior Management – please up date the exec/experience engineer salary

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Petronas full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Starting point for experience and knowledge.

Cons – Losing ground on core to more corporate agenda

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company