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3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

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Wael Sawan

63% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

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5.0
Nov 16, 2017

Great Company

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Pros

Positive relationship with management, coworkers, and customers. Good communication with bosses. Very reliable, steady work. Flexible hours. Good honest work for good honest pay.

Cons

It's great work but not a living wage, basically a super starting job but not a career. Not a lot of advancement opportunities.

1.0
Nov 14, 2017

Senior Engineer

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Pros

There is absolutely nothing positive about this company.

Cons

Horrible work culture and environment, festered with harassment, incompetent and ignorant management which is oppressive and unaware of ground reality. Nothing ever gets done in this office. Employees are treated like office stationery or furniture which can be tossed about at will or at the whims of management. There is absolutely no respect for people and management's behavior borders on human rights violation. If you want to work here, leave your basic human dignity at the doorstep before you enter and prepare to be tortured mercilessly and continuously. Even prisoners serving life sentence are treated better in the worst jails. Employees are perennially depressed and management is completely apathetic or clueless.

4.0
Oct 28, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The company has a global presence so there are opportunities to work in other parts of the world, if that is appealing to you. The company is healthy despite the struggles of the oil and gas industry globally. The company has a healthy culture in terms of general respect for employees (disrespectful interaction and abusive interactions are generally frowned upon), family and work/life balance is important, increased cultural diversity seems to be a focus. General safety in all respects is VERY important. The company spends a significant amount of time and money preaching safety in everything that is done. While this is no new or surprising for a terminal, off-shore, work operation in the field, the same laser focus takes place in the office buildings with all employees- accountants, finance, secretaries, etc. For instance, if one is walking down a set of stairs, you are required to hold the handrail. If you don’t and someone sees you, then the may say (politely), “Please use the hand rail”). The idea is to keep people safe at all costs and creat a culture throughput the organization where safety is more important than profits and “efficiency”.

Cons

Organization is generally slow in terms of making decisions and very process heavy in just about everything. Sometimes simple projects approvals / decisions are difficult to obtain.

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