Shell Data Engineer reviews

3.5

67% would recommend to a friend

(85 total reviews)
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Wael Sawan

37% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Data Engineer employees have rated Shell with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 85 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Data Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Shell is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Data Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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85 reviews
5.0
Oct 17, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Supportive work culture, strong focus on learning and innovation, exposure to large-scale data systems, great work-life balance, and opportunities to collaborate with diverse global tea

Cons

Processes can be slow due to organizational hierarchy, and cross-team dependencies sometimes delay project timelines.

3.0
Sep 26, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Work trips abroad. 2. Bonus is like a fixed component. 3. Work is project dependent but generally good work across projects. 4. Very good work life balance.

Cons

1. Hard to climb up the promotion ladder because of politics. 2. Worthless middle management can just be removed because they contribute nothing to the projects. 3. Pay scale can be upgraded.

5.0
Sep 21, 2025

Work Life Balance is good

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work Life Balance is good

Cons

Everything looks good. Free food Transportaion

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