bp Employee Reviews about "oil and gas"

Pros

Very good company to work for, but not now. They are doing a lot of layoffs

Cons

Doing a lot of layoffs as the oil and gas industry has continued to drop

Pros

Great opportunities, Great Pay.

Cons

Lost job when gas prices fall

Pros

Excellent benefits and professional environment

Cons

Due to the Instable Oil & Gas market there is high risk of layoffs

Pros

Culture of understanding and empathy. Agreement by consensus (if you are risk averse). (Previously) International Opportunities

Cons

- Bureaucracy & hierarchical. Although trying to change this, old habits die hard. - Low morale in the oil & gas function due to public shunning of segment throughout 2020. - Far more limited international opportunities. - Progression is glacial and is now founded more on who you know, talking a good talk & overall optics. Technical interviews are no longer gruelling, to ensure greater representation and D&I - which tough technical interviews was found to be at odds with. Now hiring managers need to know who they are likely to hire before they've internally interviewed. Makes a mockery of the system. - Only a handful are hand picked for progression into the upper echelons of the organisation - feels like an old boys club. - Simplification by reducing headcount only, not reducing workload.

Pros

The pay and benefits are above average

Cons

Oil and gas is a declining industry; work life balance could use some improvement

Pros

While BP looks after its staff while you're employed, they just as easily show you the door. Good benefits, reasonable salaries. How well you do depends on your boss.

Cons

Shareholders come first, not employees. Lots of company politics. Senior management looking out for themselves, not for their employees. Low gas prices seemed to take the organization by surprise. Their solution was to cut staff numbers, not to improve productivity. Letting experienced people go and replacing them with inexperienced, cheaper employees.

Pros

Inclusive, Ethical, Agile and technology focused in delivering change to the energy market

Cons

Oil & Gas stigma; Some area's have inexperienced management due to bad succession management.

Pros

Great working environment with supportive team mates. For fresh graduates, this would a good start up point for valuable learnings and exposure.

Cons

Hard to move up positions or maybe the process is slower here since its a huge oil and gas company.

Pros

A huge company with global prescence, a nice working enviroment where you can quickly find your comfort zone and work your way around the company - doing lots of meaningless jobs with fancy job titles. Still a few expat roles out there, where the money and benefits are excellent.

Cons

Small fish in a big pond - very uncommercial management team, constant change, underperforming, low pay, rapidly reducing total reward package (just got rid of c-days etc) At the moment they are on a real cost-cutting process, which has dramtically reduced the amount of international travel opportuninties. Senior management have been around to long and lost touch with the quickly changing oil&gas environment

Pros

BP is an excellent company with a competive salary package and a lot of opportunities around the globe.

Cons

As there are a few oil & gas companies and so moving on from BP take time.