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      3.8

      67% would recommend to a friend

      (7,146 total reviews)
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      Meg O’Neill

      73% approve of CEO

      45% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Senior management

      bp has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,146 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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      7K reviews
      2.0
      Oct 22, 2009

      Great Place with some "very" bad apples

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Challenging environment. - New Technologies. - Flexibile Schedule - Great Benifits

      Cons

      - Some very unethical and nincompoops have made their way into the management of otherwise a very great pool of people. - There is no apprecition for hard work and accomplishments. - The feedback is always lacking and management is always discreet in thier behaviour.

      4.0
      Sep 18, 2009

      Overall a good place

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      9/80 workplan Dynamic workplace Worldwide projects Positions in the whole reserve progression process

      Cons

      Obscure promotion criteria Moving away from empowering professionals as much as in past Upper management across company becoming less diversitied - more UK citizens

      3.0
      Mar 16, 2009

      Good company but to wedded to tradition to become a great company

      Petroleum engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      BP has a very good training program and encourage training throughout ones career. The IT system is well done, while it can be slow, it is reliable and well supported. The biggest strength of BP is excellent people to work with; they do a good job getting good people and training them on a technical level. There is also a tendency to move people every to different groups every 2 or 3 years (this is not a relocation but a change of groups locally). I like this, but other people may not. There is also a lot of flexibility of work schedule and good work-family balance.

      Cons

      The main problem with BP is that it is a large,slow, and tradition bound company. There are processes in place for everything from drilling a multi-million dollar well to putting toilet paper on the dispenser. Failure to flow results in chastisement from above. If the processes says jump off a cliff, you are expected to do so. It is also nearly impossible to make change happen even if you are at a high management level. In mid 2008 there was an initiative to simplify the processes we follow. Unfortunately the simplification process is so complex it has yet to be implemented.

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