Anadarko Petroleum Reviews

Pros

This company offers good benefits, great PTO, and are family oriented.

Cons

Upper management could be more transparent

Pros

Best place to work. Great benefits

Cons

No downsides to working at Anadarko.

Pros

nice people and great team spirit

Cons

poor management and lack of vision

Pros

Peoples there are amazing. It is a family type atmosphere Benefits Training Culture Compensation IT department Software

Cons

CEO Work life balance Upward mobility Career advancement Locations

Pros

Company valued their employees. Great life balance and benefits.

Cons

Constant changes and bureaucracy typical corporate world.

Pros

Salary and benefits like 401k match

Cons

Stressful deadlines, not enough support

Pros

The people at Anadarko are its best asset. I was glad to come to work with respected friends and colleagues everyday. The compensation was good, but the PTO and Friday's off were excellent perks.

Cons

While technical training is something that Anadarko touts it is common for geologists and engineers to be pigeonholed into roles which allow for little to no technical application. The team to which I was last assigned was comprised of a mixture of geologists and engineers. The consensus between everyone on the team is that we all became worse geologists and engineers in that role. Anadarko is probably one of the least innovative workplaces in the industry. While they have an exploration group, the team isn't given nearly enough time to work quality prospects. At the time that I left the company the exploration geologists were given 90 days to identify an opportunity and complete a full regional evaluation. It is no wonder that the company hadn't made a significant onshore discovery in the last decade and they've relied on paying premium prices for acreage followed by copy-catting other innovative E&Ps. The last thing is the core values. Anadarko is so proud of their core values but it's just lip-service. You are hammered with talk about the values but it's totally insincere and it's a way to ding people on their end of year reviews. Get rid of that nonsense.

Pros

Great culture and benefits. They rewards hard work and value their employees.

Cons

I can't think of any.

Pros

Just a great place to work. Very enjoyable

Cons

The company was bought out by occidental petroleum.

Pros

Vacation time (4-7 weeks, by age), competitive salary, many lucrative bonus programs, total compensation is killer, Christmas party (maroon 5, robin thicke, zac brown...), beautiful corporate headquarters, but most of all the people and culture. Values truly run the company, and how well you live those values determines your annual performance review and promotions/raises. If you are not a moral person with strong values, this is not the company for you.

Cons

Sometimes I worry that we're not doing enough to preserve the culture and current structure of the company. Anadarko is fantastic, but a large part of what makes us successful is that we enable and empower individuals to be successful via autonomy. It feels as if some people want to add more structure and process that could potentially stifle innovation and our spirit of entrepreneurship. This hasn't happened yet, but we need to be cognizant of the risk.