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3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(7,142 total reviews)
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Meg O’Neill

67% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

bp has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,142 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The bp 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
Nov 12, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great work life balance. Work from home twice a week and the benefits are great.

Cons

Leadership is biased and only promote people based on how they like you. It has nothing to do with experience or education. It you aren't in the circle you will be treated like crap. The company is going through a major change. Many jobs are going offshore.

5.0
Nov 10, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great People to work with

Cons

Hard to be quick ton responsive to issues with a big company

1.0
Nov 5, 2015

Concensus paralysis

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

BP pays well above market, which is great while you are there. It may haunt you in future job searches. Upstream BP is very good at what they do, finding energy. IT is weak and misguided but that provides opportunity for smart people to do great work. There are some great people at BP, diamonds in the rough, who can make it a great company someday if they can effect change on the culture.

Cons

BP management pays lip service to modern corporate values but fails to change. There are so many levels of management, most of which are clueless to what other great companies are doing and yet are closed to new ideas. Powerful internal customers routinely overrule subject matter experts to get their own way. BP calls itself collaborative but the reality is a paradox where consensus is required but everyone wants their own way effectively paralyzing any meaningful change. London lives with it's head in the clouds effectively ignoring the wants and needs to employees and leaders worldwide. Ex. 9am (GMT) global con calls are 3 am US Central time...when pressed the UK leaders will respond that the meeting can be recorded and reviewed later. Happens all the time. BP wastes more money than most companies make, which has got to be hard with the price of oil so low these days.

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