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4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(825 total reviews)
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Wael Sawan

64% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

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2.0
Sep 15, 2019
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Pros

At the station I worked at, the employees as well as the manager were very close knit & friendly. The job is not one of hard manual labor, and of course doesn't require much hard thinking.

Cons

As you can expect from a gas station job, the work station is pretty filthy. The overwhelming majority of the work is trying to keep up with the store's cleanliness. For whatever reason, gas stations seem to attract grime and gunk, and you never seem to get ahead of it. The worst part in my opinion, however, was the ugly amount of bureaucracy. There's always some corporate man in sunglasses lurching over your shoulder, judging your job. Because of this extra amount of stress, the job is a total revolving door, where almost nobody seems to last a year without quitting. That certainly was the case for me.

4.0
Sep 6, 2019

Great team

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Pros

Compensation was great with awesome team.

Cons

Workload not evenly shared, high leaders didn't listen.

5.0
Aug 10, 2019
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Pros

Work life balance. 9/80 schedule, flexible start and end time for the day, and one of the best maternity and paternity time off in the US. High pay and good benefits. 401K match program and pension. They hire you for the long run. It's very difficult to get into Shell, but once you're in, they invest in you and you can have a long career with them. The turnover rate is much lower than other companies. Shell is an energy company and is investigating in climate friendly energy sources. Much more than oil and gas, Shell agrees with global warming and has a plan to help.

Cons

Shell is divesting in some of the smaller manufacturing plants, so choose the location wisely to not get sold to another company in a few years. Shell hires future leaders and values leadership skills over technical skills for graduate hires out of school. Only problem is not everyone can become managers so there's a bit of mismatch between who HR hires, and who the managers want to be hired. Shell needs more people who want to have a technical career and stay engineers.

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