Shell Oil US Reviews

Pros

treat employee with respect and offer training opportunities

Cons

too many layers in decision making

Advice to Senior Management

challenge

Pros

Work life balance
Learning opprtunities. Risk aversive leadership

Cons

Very political
Risk aversive Closed to external hires. Who you know is important and talent decisionsbare based on who you know and how political you are...

Advice to Senior Management

Try to be less political

Pros

Enhance work & life balance, value respect, good working climate, growing fast, good employee benefits, and good career stepping stone.

Cons

The leaders at some division are lacking of leadership, under average salary, difficult career progression.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention to your staff

Pros

Large company with many opportunities. Competitive salary. Very safety conscious and an overall good corporate citizen. Willingness to rotate employees into roles they would like to pursue.

Cons

HR is too involved with making decisions. Supervisors and managers aware of your technical proficiency and work ethic should have ability to advance you when appropriate, not prove their case to HR by fulfilling an obscure matrix.

Advice to Senior Management

Grant restricted stock to key performers as a way to retain them. This couples the company's desire to tie benefits to length of employment while meeting a younger generation's desire to get rewards sooner rather than later.

Pros

Generous pay and benefits, bonus, 401k, pension, good people to work with, value culture difference, flexible work schedules, some departments allow work at home

Cons

Constant re-organization, outsourcing jobs, the structure of 4-year job assignment slowing down the career movement, lack of opportunities to move up in career ladder

Advice to Senior Management

People survey should have plenty of voices for the advice to management

Pros

The pay and benefits are excellent. Good opportunity for growth but you have to be a go getter, meaning you must have a good work track record, sell yourself and use your people network skills. Under the right manager you can excel with no limits provided there are still jobs available in the U.S., or you are prepared to move about globally to achieve advancement.

Cons

Work life balance is preached but sometimes not adhered to by management. Many jobs require long hours, more than 40 per week and in some positions working till we hours of the morning of next day, with no extra compensation for salaried exempt employees, not even time off. They take advantage of salaried exempt. Manager not always honest and forth coming with changes that affect your job. Lots of politics and playing favorites by managers in many areas of the company. If a manager doesn't like you (and it usually has nothing to do with performance) your opportunity for growth and advancement can be seriously hindered. Big issue currently, lots of job lay-offs and downsizing. Since Shell U.S. has been taken over by Shell Netherlands, the Europeans have been set on a mission to squash all opportunities here in the U.S. and have been moving multitudes of operations and jobs to other global facilities, jobs that do not create efficiencies in processes or in cutting costs. Many new employees just hired found themselves looking for a new job/position withing 6 months of being hired due to job downsizing in the U.S.

Advice to Senior Management

Make job opportunities legit and more available in the United States. Stop disassembling well functioning business areas. Stop the politics and favorites that managers play. Get rid of managers that continue this behavior. When employees bring this to your attention or to HR, listen to them because the case they present is legitimate and if you think about it, it took them months and a lot of advice from others to gain courage to present their situation to management or HR. Shell was once a great company and know as the best place to work, everyone wanted to work for Shell, but now that is no longer the case. Employees are contantly stressed with fear of loosing their job. Bottom line, grow Shell back into the great company it once was. Give employees a great place to work once again and one to be proud of once again. Stop sending jobs overseas and destroying Shell in the U.S.

Pros

Good projects, good guidance from Principal investigator Dr. Morrison

Cons

No opportunity after graduation from TURBOLAB.

Advice to Senior Management

Considering hiring students who have worked on Shell projects. It would be a great beneifit to the organisation as well as the student.

Pros

Competitive Pay
Bonuses EVERY year
Good stock purchase program
Diverse workforce
Safety Focused (mostly in the office)
Decent Benefits
9/80 Work Schedule

Cons

They rank/compare you to your peers all over the world (how you fare vs everyone else determines your bonus and their view of your current estimated potential). HR is a joke and they don't have diverse upper level managers. They talk about safety in the workplace a lot, but there are operations going on where people get shot at... But when that happens they keep it on the hush and don't protect people. And I've had to work on almost every Friday off with no substitutions (counted as a loss on my end).

Advice to Senior Management

This is a Global Company. Perhaps we should take pointers from the International portion and give our employees more vacation time.

Pros

large company with good engineers

Cons

not dynamic, slow and bad managers

Advice to Senior Management

be fair

Pros

Good package, good people lot of technology

Cons

To many bosses, procedures and hard to take decisions

Advice to Senior Management

Be less in number