Saipem reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(1,390 total reviews)
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Alessandro Puliti

88% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Saipem has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,390 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Saipem employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energia, mineração, utilitários industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Aug 23, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Surrounded by very knowledgeable people, used to be a master on their field. A lot of will to do better. Your colleague is a person who think before the action. Several opportunities to have experiences abroad. A good work life balance but also a strong pushing when required. A very wide range of technologies you could learn and professional figures you could be or interact with: an incredible training, if you are lucky. Good facilities.

Cons

The cons of a large, too large Company without a guidance in a period of recession: management does not know what to do anymore. Politics shall support Saipem, but in Rome they just want to be clean, that is: "do nothing, so we don't get impeached".And it is very bad. In lack of deep general guidelines and philosophy, a lot of energy wasted in micromanagement and in the codification of that.

4.0
Aug 16, 2016

Senior engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Its an EPC Company,the project starts from feed state

Cons

Frequently there is co-ordination for CAD Administrationerthing is set up at head office Milan-Italy to Improve efficiency ev

1.0
Aug 10, 2016

If it's literally you're only option

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The only pro would be if this is your only option other than being unemployed; only then would it be considered a "pro" because you would have money coming into your pocket. Espresso machines.

Cons

How much time do you have? The company cannot win projects with US-based companies because Saipem's ego gets in the way. All of their projects are with unstable countries in the GOM area, leading to inconsistent work. You better be Italian to be promoted (only 4 managers not from overseas). You better be ready to do some border-line illegal stuff. Saipem's business model is to have contracts with their clients, and then focus on creating changes to those contracts later on down the road, obviously in Saipem's favor. They used to have a profitable and respectable ROV department, but Saipem management decided to cancel that business because it's not sexy enough. No communication either inter-departments and intra-departments. No training, no development. I think they have one female in engineering. I'm pretty sure the positive comments written below in the past two years were created by the HR manager. Don't go to HR for anything. Don't even attempt to use SAP, nor ask; nobody knows how to do it. CEO will tell you they're done with layoffs, and then layoff 20 people within the next month. Don't bring up anything regarding harassment, being treated unfairly, even worker's comp situations...people got termed for these. All of a sudden, they had "poor" performance scores. And, the lead business development person just got a promotion without bringing in a single project in the past 2 years. He's italian.

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