Stay away from the accounting department - Anonymous employee SM Energy Employee Review

1.0
Apr 23, 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

SM Energy is a great company and there are many talented and intelligent people that work there. Tony Best is a terrific CEO an the benefits are great.

Cons

While benefits are great, the salaries are less than average for the industry. The operations accounting group has had problems for years. Management at one point had to go around to everyone and apologize for one of the accounting managers they hired (then fired) who turned out to be a little crazy. Turnover is very high in the operations accounting group. Compared to the rest of the company, the employees and supervisors in this group are very unprofessional. The operations accounting group even has a bad reputation within the company. Stay Away!

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