Shell reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(13,603 total reviews)
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Wael Sawan

62% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Shell has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 13,603 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Shell employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Sep 21, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Large company with potential to move to other positions and areas Flexible working schedule. Still offer 9/80 (work 9 hours M-R, 8 hours every other Friday). Still offer flexible starting times. People are nice and work in a team environment. Still provide free coffee (regular and decaf) Cafeteria has great food

Cons

Shell continues to reorganize, eliminating high pay positions and putting more responsibility on lower grade levels. The department that I work in has reorganized every year for the past 3 years. There are now 54% less people and the majority left have less than 4 years experience. Work/ Life balance is poor. Since there are less people, there is more overtime work. Folks are scared to provide honest feedback to management since they may be eliminated during the next reorganization. Beware that there are some people who get away with back-stabbing to advance their careers. Everyone is ranked against each other for bonuses and advancement.

3.0
Feb 8, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Nice pay, pension, flexible working hours

Cons

Forced ranking system - hesitate to share knowledge with same job grade colleagues. Company does not appreciate hard workers, but favors hard talkers (high visibility). If team lead is not willing to say good words for you, you screwed. You will always hear things like "oh, you did great last year, but others did better than you".

1.0
Aug 15, 2018

absolute HELL

Recommend
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Pros

High pay. You will learn to navigate & be tough in stressful environments. Free food at least 2x/week. That’s really it.

Cons

Geez so many... Every month, someone quits. Wonder why... The company claims they love diversity but hires everyone from the same city, same school. Pretty much everyone has lived near the site for their whole lives. How will you ever be innovative???? All your employees are too closed minded to every leave the country or even state. Horrible and long work hours, even weekends sometimes but they act like they care about preventing fatigue. You’ll never see management there on weekends though. Mainly white males with egos through the ROOF. I’m a white male and even I hated this. I’d never grow there. Everyone makes fun of each other plus talks behind each other’s backs, and smiles in faces, even management. Everyone tries to push work on someone else. This place was full of lazy stuck up people, just going through the motions. You’re only liked by managers if you kiss up. Oh and don’t ever be quiet. Quiet people will never ever ever make it. The systems are extremely slow. They keep cutting the budget & just laid off all of hr??? Takes way to long to move around. Plus so much more. Spare yourself and don’t work here. It’s probably the whole refining industry.

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