Pros
Smartest people in the industry Beautiful office in Singapore (fresh flowers!) Great, friendly traders (most decent, most polite ones in the oil trading industry)
Cons
If you’re being interviewed, please ask why the position is vacant. It is VERY MOST LIKELY vacant because someone could not take the job insecurity within, or the lack of future advancement prospects within. This company is driven by efficiencies. And as such, the higher levels are extremely communicative about downsizing (because their world-class unrivalled integrated trading system has upended the need for so 70% people) or transferring functions elsewhere (because employing staff from Eastern Europe and Malaysia is much more cost-effective than hiring people from London and Singapore). It was not a great feeling joining a prestigious company, only to be faced with the nagging job insecurity and lack of career advancement opportunities. I had so many sleepless nights. And it’s like a survival of the fittest inside. Cut-throat, dog-eat-dog competition. If you are a gentle, humanist, sensitive person, don’t join. It’s essentially a money-making machine, and totally devoid of camaraderie.
