Great people, good salary good benefits, very poor management and poor outlook
Pros
A lot of very skilled workers (level G and below). Great Benefits and good pay. Good diversity and hard working people.
Cons
Very poor management coming from London. No good idea can ever come from outside the UK. The last 10 years, every decision made has had bad repercussion on the business, workers and knowledge depletion and yet shareholders keep getting paid at the expense of workers. Higher ups are a closed club and they only promote within their restricted group. New CEO fooled everyone with his supposed "in touch with workers" attitude when in reality he is ruthless and is totally out of touch with reality. He spent "Tweeting or Yammering" instead of truly running the business (reminds me of TRUMP). Managers are promoted based on who you know and not what you accomplish. Some managers are sooooooo bad that they keep bouncing from one division to the other wrecking havoc but never get fired. In general this organization is absolutely terrible at running assets....hence everytime they sold one, the new owners made out really well and ran that assets 100% better than when it was in BP's hands. This is all due to too much red tape. I view this organization as an oil tanker that takes forever to make a turn while it's competitors are more nimble and are more like frigates. The last 10 years, BP went through 5 reorg all by reducing headcounts or selling assets. The organization is just too lean to function properly and is constantly trying to put up fires that get started because of the lack of bodies/personnel.
