SABIC Reviews

Current Employee – been working at SABIC full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Teams work well together. Great people locally.

Cons – Not competitive in salary or bonus plans.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SABIC full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good pay (but getting worse all the time. Not keeping up with inflation)
Good benefits
Night and weekend bonuses pay.

Cons – Verbally abusive managers who blame operators for their failures.
An HR department that backs management no matter what they do.
Employees forced to work hundreds of hours of overtime, including days off, so Sabic doesn't have to hire enough people.
Recently started replacing permanent employees with bottom of the barrel temporary workers.
Recently created a new job classification that pays about 1/3 less than previously. Jobs are given that classification without managers having any idea what they involve.
Recently shifted to a policy of locking people into jobs for 5 years instead of the 2 years that GE had set up.
Recently shifted to a policy of hiring new people for preferred jobs instead of allowing all employees a chance to sign those jobs. So, loyal employees are squeezed out of opportunities for good jobs.
Equipment is in need of replacement or repair, but the company won't spend the money.
A sense that management dislikes shift workers and resents their pay and benefits.

Advice to Senior Management – Allow employees to rate managers and bosses using an independent website like bossrater to identify problem managers. Replace managers that get extremely low ratings.
Hire enough people that workers don't have to work hundreds of hours of overtime.
Eliminate the new, lower paying job classification. GE determined that those jobs were of equal value. What has Sabic done to prove otherwise?
Stop trying to replace permanent employees with cheap, unreliable, unskilled temporary workers.
Return to GE's 2-year tenure policy
Return to GE's policy of allowing all employees a chance to sign preferred jobs, regardless of tenure.
Stop hiring new people to take jobs that employees want.
Show some loyalty to employees.
Spend the money to repair the equipment that is barely being held together.

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

Former Employee – worked at SABIC full-time for less than a year

Pros – Not focused on monthly numbers, big picture company with strong financials.

Cons – Really the most significant deterent is that the company is not that well known here, and much of the leaderships ops are overseas.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SABIC full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Excellent benefits , Good to employees.

Cons – Pay structure is non existent.

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

Current Employee – been working at SABIC full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Decent health care coverage, no nights or weekends.

Cons – Employees are not treated with respect or valued. Salary offered is far below what other companies in the plastics business in the area are offering for same/similar positions. This includes companies much smaller than Sabic Innovative Plastics. Management is questionable in both competency and ethics. Overall ineffective. Values perception of actual results or performance.

Advice to Senior Management – Offer competitive benefits and salary, treat your employees with respect, reward performance.

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

Former Employee – worked at SABIC full-time for less than a year

Pros – Mostly great people and great products. Broad product portfolio. Technical support people are excellent.

Cons – Very transactional. Still carries the GE arrogance from time to time. Higher pricing than competitors isn't always warranted.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus needs to be on developing long term relationships with customers. Too much focus is on the short term business goals of the organization.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SABIC as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Working with different countries, good vacation time, great benefits. I like having the secure building also. Overall a great place to work.

Cons – There is not much to say other than the fact that they need to have more standard operation procedures in place for newer employees and should have more training on the system that they use.

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

Current Employee – been working at SABIC

Pros – Good place to learn in the beginning of the career. Quite refined practices are in place for everyday processes. Low cost of living might be a plus for some.

Cons – Management is pretty arrogant and seem like they do not care about you. Mundane/boring location. HR is not great at managing employee motivation.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to be more aware of the issues that their subordinates go through in their heads. If they do so, the subordinates will get the job done and will be motivated to do more at the end of it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SABIC

Pros – Challenging, diversified culture, global footprint, r&d and technology focus

Cons – high degree of complexity, short term focus

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SABIC

Pros – Huge resources, global presence, good balance between work and family life. Recognition, talent review process, strong financial position, opportunity for career growth

Cons – Not much cons that I can see. Organizational structure is complex, product lines needs further refinements, brand is not as well known in USA

Advice to Senior Management – More work necessary to spread the SABIC branding, Need further simplification of the organizational structure, need to increase the compensation

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend