TOTAL Reviews

Pros

The office in Aberdeen is a great place to work.
Good atmosphere, motivated and skilled workforce
Good communication from management

Cons

Working with HQ in Paris can be difficult
Knowledge sharing between the subsidiaries is very poor
Long hours of work
Not at all open to flexible working

Advice to Senior Management

Trust your employees and let them go home on time!
Be more progressive with flexible working

Pros

French and international culture
Technical culture is well emphatised
Pushing on management diversity

Cons

Average salaries
Average deal as expat
HR policy is weird
Opportunities to grow are not equally given

Advice to Senior Management

As technical culture is pushed by management, people grow should also been pushed into responsabilities. Management need to be more focused on manage people and let them grow.

Pros

Lots of work and very presurrised

Cons

Lower pay and benefits, with poor structure

Advice to Senior Management

Employee satisfaction must be put in place

Pros

Working for an operator you don't have any external clients.

Cons

Can be very demanding in terms of management expectations.

Advice to Senior Management

Certain departments could benefit from improved communication regarding project status and development.

Pros

great people, great environment, great profile

Cons

a lot of work still needs to be done to become a truly global enterprise but this is recognised and efforts are underway to achieve

Advice to Senior Management

great work

Pros

they treat you very well, the environment of work is good. the salary is good. and if you go to work field the compensation just great.

Cons

i dont really have bad experience when work for them. it just sometime you just stand by in the office doing nothing.

Pros

size, salary, networking with experts worldwide, techniques, reserve security with going deep offshore, great sunny future... great canteen! smily french personel!

Cons

might not recognize your contribution, but this is because of the size. can sometimes be not flexible to match your expectations specifically with regards to expatriation.

Advice to Senior Management

keep a record of what your employees have done so that not to miss talented staff... the rest is great - good job!

Pros

huge company, supposedly great opportunities , strong leadership, technologically excellent, and of course the usually good french people

Cons

too big to really address some issues, a lil aloof from the issue of career development of the employee , lack of complete information sharing, not great competency mapping

Advice to Senior Management

involve employees in growth, talk about real opportunities for career and professional growth, share information abt company, map competencies .

Pros

working in this kind of giant company is always rewarding in terms of projects... self motivation... and accomplishment...

Cons

but this is also working in the jungle were you have to stand for your health , your integrity and signal to everyone limits of their rights...

Advice to Senior Management

keep on going and you ll be a france telecom nunber 2.

Pros

integrated operator from exploration to production, all field of competencies represented, all operations type represented

Cons

french sneaky management, no leadership, no passion, poor training, career development based on tenure rather than skills, bad conditions for mobility in (housing, wife, family).

Advice to Senior Management

Management manage first their career, then their workforce