Great if You Have no Aspirations to Improve Your Career - Accountant SM Energy Employee Review

3.0
Aug 27, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

-Excellent benefits, Flex Fridays every other week (accounting gets to actually use about 70%) -Offer "career development" trainings

Cons

-Base pay is below industry average -Company is shrinking so no opportunities for growth or to move around the company (as they promised during the hiring process) -Super middle management heavy. In some departments there are more supervisors/managers then staff -Promotion process is extremely bureaucratic -Typical oil and gas culture

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5.0
Oct 14, 2025
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Pros

This is one of the best companies I've worked for. They are growth and leadership minded. Feels like the Leadership team really care about their people.

Cons

None I enjoy working here.

4.0
Jul 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Overall a good place to work.

Cons

Very old school management structure. Felt outdated. Limited flexibility in functions and very limited opportunity for growth,

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