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3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(7,134 total reviews)
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63% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

bp has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,134 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
Jan 22, 2015
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Pros

-BP Pays well -You'll have an Operator on your resume -9/80 workweek -Gyms on campus -Good 401k matching -Global footprint

Cons

You won't have a 'cool' or 'sexy' job if your not in engineering. Although the company is global, its very difficult to actually work in a different Region due to cost. Oh, and they are laying off thousands of people :)

1.0
Dec 18, 2014

All Around Bad, Don't Make The Same Mistake

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good benefits (when business is good)

Cons

Poor benefits when business is bad (very quick to eliminate the low cost morale boosters i.e. bonuses, lunches, company sponsored events), poor morale, poor leadership, too many chiefs, too much paperwork & forms, too much emphasis on action items and not enough on the work that is actually done, everything requires hand written sign-offs which is very time consuming and outdated, no opportunity for career advancement (at current site), WAY TOO MUCH politics and game playing, each department blames other departments for their mistakes, management is comically delusional and completely disconnected from what is actually going on at the site, WAY TOO MUCH D&I to the point where under qualified personnel are hired/promoted meanwhile they let the qualified/deserving candidates go straight to their competition, no effort to develop talent, no effort to retain talent

3.0
Dec 15, 2014

Good perks, chaotic structure

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lots of flexibility Great benefits Mostly good and smart people as a result of rigorous selection processes Plenty of development opportunities if you seek them out and take advantage of availability; getting ahead is very much a matter of networking and making things happen for yourself

Cons

Seemed like there was constant restructuring at department, function, and/or corporate level, so overall strategy was questionable. Personality assessments given as part of selection were rigged at times. (I know because the YSC psychologist admitted to me that she slanted one assessment to get me away from a specific manager and was willing to revise the same assessment to give me a better shot at another opportunity!)

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