LyondellBasell reviews

The Pre-Bankruptcy Lyondell culture was focused on Reliability via excellent technical personnel The Lyondellbasell culture is all about cost control; employees cost and spend money so they must be controlled It used to be a company philosophy to have excellent 20+ year Engineers to provide technical continuity and mentor the next generation but that has been effectively eliminated since the Basell merger. After about 10 years there is little to no hope for promotion on the technical track and with the stated goal of paying 50% of market reference for compensation no real reason to stay. Promotion onto the management track is largely by the buddy system emphasizing buddies from outside the current company talent pool. The drain of technical talent over the last 2 years has left few mentors and even those that are left have very little time to actually teach. Management philosophy and the major losses of technical talent has made for a non-existent work-life balance for the remaining technical personnel. An upper manager bragged that they have not been on vacation with their family in 20 years and a different senior leader stated that they had been at work while a spouse went through cancer treatments showing. That is attitude of upper management towards work-life balance and they expect that from their employees.

They should start the university of micro managing. Moral took a major blow in the past 12 months after making progress from an all time low. A lot of employees are looking for other opportunities. Benefits and pay are good, but not as good as other companies. The team atmosphere has diminished.