Shell reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(13,614 total reviews)
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Wael Sawan

63% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Shell has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 13,614 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 Energia, estrazione mineraria, servizi di pubblica utilità industry (3.7 stars).

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4.0
Dec 15, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

1)Incredibly diverse workforce creates an interesting and unique work environment. 2)encourages employees to give back to the local communities via volunteer work 3)upper management communicates regularly to the general employee workforce

Cons

This company is over-burdened by "process" and general overhead in comparison to actual work. It really over-burdens the staff. I spend 90% of my time dealing with "process" as opposed to real work. When i started work with this company in year 2000, it was 90% work and 10% process. Over the years the trend reversed to the point where "process" greatly exceeds work. I am paid as a glorified Admin assistant instead of an IT professional. I am part of the Shell Trading organization. Trading is essentially a Financial Services organization with different requirements and needs from the parent company. Unfortunately, Shell treats the Trading division just like the rest of the oil company. Shell applies a "one size fits all" methodology to all the business units.

2.0
Dec 13, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This is a company that pays well. It is a part of an organization that has been around for over 100 years. In theory, you have opportunities in a variety of business units around the world.

Cons

The largest obstacles to success are created internally. Unfortunately, it is part of a matrix organization where different departments with different hierarchies within the larger Shell family have conflicting objectives and performance benchmarks. Frequent rotation amongst the highest levels of management result in changes in strategy every three or four years, often before the existing strategy has been fully implemented.

2.0
Dec 7, 2010

Shell Lubricants - a peanut department in Shell

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

a FMCG business model in an energy company organisation is run on a budget/shoe-string people are generally friendly and supportive Diversity, a business that contains the highest number of "non-Shell breed" professional - many experienced recruits Progression is faster compared to other business, but reaches the limit very fast at very young age - either you're then stuck or move to other business- commercial B2B

Cons

Considered an "outside" in Shell, not a core business salary way below that of Upstream + Downstream + Chemical Serious lack of graduate No structured training for graduate Not a place to grow your career in Shell - career graveyard - but good place to gain a feel of how FMCG works in reality

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