Shell reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(13,601 total reviews)
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62% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Shell has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 13,601 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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1.0
Feb 17, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Good focus on research and development, willing to take risks, trim unnecessary processes, and can be very transparent. Strong technical people. Flexible work schedules.

Cons

Commercial decision making process needs work. Fail to follow structured Gate System and mega projects are all over budget and off schedule. Highly nepotistic and HR system is fundamentally corrupt. Difficult to have a conversation about sticky issues without being retaliated against. Ethics group also corrupt.

2.0
Feb 6, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The money is great, guys on the floor are awesome and very skilled tradesmen. They offer fly in fly out for those who do not wish to live in s northern community

Cons

Management has no idea what they're doing and very much has an "old boys" club and they have lost the trust of the employees. The camp for the fly in and out people has suffered greatly due to cutbacks.

1.0
Jan 17, 2016

Engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting projects are available, if you're buddies with right people. Everything is very early stage development, so there's no real accountability for failure. It's not a bad deal, really.

Cons

If you want to accomplish anything of any real meaning, you will be sorely disappointed. The company is 99% about making Shell look innovative and 1% about anything of substance. It's embarrassing.

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