Suncor FAQ

Pros

Suncor is a great company to work for in IT. The other employees are friendly, they offer free training and certification, and the lower/middle management team is great. Leadership communicates well, and for the most part they explain their actions. They offer excellent benefits, lots of vacation and personal time off. Bonus plan and restricted stock units for high performers. Overall Suncor is a great place to work.

Cons

Relocated Petro Canada to Calgary, created a lot of job losses. Although they offered relocation packages there is no need for IT to relocate these days. They flattened the organization structure in IT, which will limit progression on a management track.

Pros

- The safety culture is outstanding - Work deadlines are reasonable - Facilities and working environment in general is top notch - I have never feel any harassments/ unappropriated comment from any leader - The full benefit package is good: pension and savings plan, salary and benefits, and restricted share unit program based on employee salary band and annual performance

Cons

- The company and work environment are super political, people gets promoted on who they know and who they are connected/ family, etc. - Once you join the company forget about career plan and significant salary increase, unless you get promoted - The company does not tend to promote the importance of being a subject matter expert; on the other hand people rotates job on a regular basis - The workforce tends to be or +25 yrs of experience or <10 yrs - Every time there is a commodity downturn, they take away employees benefits that never comes back

Advice to Management

- Promote fairly the employees - Develop subject matter expert in their areas and encourage people to take the technical part - Fairly increase salary not only based on inflation but also based on performance

Pros

Salary, nice co workers, free tea &amp; coffee, not too busy

Cons

General training not really relevant to work.

Pros

Salary and health benefits including dental

Cons

Volatile industry (oil and gas boom and bust cycles)

Pros

- The safety culture is outstanding - Work deadlines are reasonable - Facilities and working environment in general is top notch - I have never feel any harassments/ unappropriated comment from any leader - The full benefit package is good: pension and savings plan, salary and benefits, and restricted share unit program based on employee salary band and annual performance

Cons

- The company and work environment are super political, people gets promoted on who they know and who they are connected/ family, etc. - Once you join the company forget about career plan and significant salary increase, unless you get promoted - The company does not tend to promote the importance of being a subject matter expert; on the other hand people rotates job on a regular basis - The workforce tends to be or +25 yrs of experience or <10 yrs - Every time there is a commodity downturn, they take away employees benefits that never comes back

Advice to Management

- Promote fairly the employees - Develop subject matter expert in their areas and encourage people to take the technical part - Fairly increase salary not only based on inflation but also based on performance