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      3.8

      67% would recommend to a friend

      (7,128 total reviews)
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      Meg O’Neill

      63% approve of CEO

      45% positive business outlook

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      bp has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,128 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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      4.0
      Mar 27, 2009

      Deep water experiance

      Reservoir engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Staff is pretty relaxed if you work in NAG i thought. People are friendly. Before the oil price change lots of lunch and learns and therefore free lunches. I think it is easy to go and do something that is not asked for by the maneger and its ok. You do get lots of training, and I think it is the best in the industry. In the good times when oil was at a good price it was easy to travel with relatively few questions asked. Lots of knowlageble people work here and it is easy to go and ask for help.

      Cons

      Lots of politics. Very hard to get anything done especially in deep water. Everyone wants to raise their oppinions. During rig calls I counted more then 40 ppl in the room for almost an hour. This is probably why the company is not doing so efficient. The staff is not being utialized correctly and mangement is failing to see that. All the manegment is so engrosed in "the way things are done" that they forget what is really important and it is to make money. Lots of debating for hours sometimes with no real goal. Very frustrating if you need to get something doen quick.

      1.0
      Mar 23, 2009

      Do yourself a favour and look elsewhere

      Geophysici
      Recommend
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      Pros

      it's a freaking country clubl, the atmosphere is relaxed and I swear just about every woman who is in her childbearing days is pregnant and on maternity leave. There isn't alot of local technical expertise, so if you are a young person then this is great, you can get some broad training, go on lots of coarses and have some fun as you meet other 'challengers' in the company and then when someone else offers you a job you can quit and go work for some more money. Alternatively once you get five years into the company if you suck up enough to management and you do enough volunteer activities they will promote to management.

      Cons

      Lots is negative also: pay, the freaky management, the incompetent mid career staff they are trying to promote, and the total fake company lines. You can also deal with all the british and american staff in the foreign offices who come in to assure your work inside out and then because you risked you well at 50/50 and it didn't come in they want you to bend over to analyze why not, and what could have gone wrong and really it was the 50 that was supposed to have worked. Alternatively you can work a very ignored area such as production, since exploration is king there, and never EVER get noticed or promoted.

      2.0
      Mar 23, 2009

      The good, the bad and the bureaucratic

      Process engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Good early development opportunities and training. Very bright and interesting people. There are parts of the organisation which are very well led. There is a real opportunity to take advantage of the current market conditions to become leaner and fitter.

      Cons

      Very bureaucratic and slow moving so it makes it difficult to get things done in such a conservative culture. There seems to be an air of head in the sand amongst many people - maybe it's a result of too much change, too many times.

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