Shell reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(13,598 total reviews)
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Wael Sawan

62% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Shell has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 13,598 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Shell employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Énergie et exploitation des ressources naturelles industry (3.7 stars).

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4.0
Jan 24, 2010
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Work life balance, good compensation and benefits, excellent and well structured learning and development program. Relatively low stress working environment with minimal office politics at least where I was.

Cons

Growth opportunities are there but in general it seems to be quite age oriented, more opens up the older you get. On the whole, it is a rich company with a pretty laid back attitude, needs to be more aggressive to attract the go getters.

5.0
Jan 21, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Real community feeling, management work hard to build community and team feeling, to communicate, to spread best practice and learning, and to express appreciation and recognise good performance. Senior leaders really support communication, give regular webcasts and travel extensively to put a human face to this global business. Compensation and benefits are excellent as you would expect from the Shell group, training and development are well supported. A friendly and supportive environment.

Cons

The business is struggling in the current environment, leading to a recent reorganisation and job losses, and renewed efforts to simplify processes and reduce costs. While necessary, this has inevitably resulted in stress and frustration for employees bombarded with change programmes. The London office went open plan in 2008 to a call-centre style which is noisy, has inadequate meeting rooms and a major re-building project in Shell Centre leads to constant irritation for employees such as lifts not working, power cuts, false fire alarms etc. Currently a stressful environment to work in. In addition, Shell has notified employees that an unspecified number of employees will be relocated during 2011 or 2012 to a new office, possibly in Docklands.

4.0
Jan 20, 2010

Decent place to work at

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company is huge. There are lots of things you can do. You can even try to switch department if you want to try out different things. Salary is good

Cons

Hard to advance. Outage means no personal life. Need to work shifts if something bad happen to the refinary or plant.

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