bp reviews

3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(7,117 total reviews)
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Meg O’Neill

63% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

bp has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,117 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The bp 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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7K reviews
2.0
Jan 17, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Pretty good work-life balance, good benefits, good severance package (for now). Lots of smart and talented people, at least where I worked. Good diversity and inclusion.

Cons

Recent layoffs have gutted the company, leaving it understaffed and lacking experience. The transformation to an Agile work environment means staff are deployed on projects and seem to rush to get work done during the sprints. This might lead to the 80% solution becoming the 50% solution. New CEO bernard looney has re-imagined bp by transforming it into a utility company and shrinking oil and gas production 40% by 2030, and even less by 2050. The end result is that if you're a geoscientist and want a career in oil & gas, you should see working at bp as a dead-end and start looking for a new employer. In exploration, every new discovery is another step closer to making your job redundant. Upward mobility was challenging before the reorganization, so in order to advance people were leaving exploration to go to other companies. Now, it will be even harder. The latest layoffs were done in an opaque manner.

2.0
Feb 6, 2020
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

fitness center on facility is great. Decent pay for Houston (industry average).

Cons

Terrible place for engineers in the beginning of their career (0 - 5 years). No engineering or real work done. Most employees are pushing paperwork and project scheduling. People that remain are milking pension and looking for retirement, or are content doing nothing new for the rest of their career. Extremely bureaucratic and incompetent managers talk about the buzzwords like data science, renewables, Agile, impact-from-day-one, and engineering but have little understanding of what these actually mean and lack the technical foundation. Very little vacation (even with the new policy) and expensive cafeteria.

2.0
May 25, 2019

Unfair

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits: Home Office, health insurance, some expenses refunding, company laptop and phone.

Cons

Horrible environment. Extremely demanding company for very poor wages. If you have good personal relationships with the management you have some opportunity to grow. Based on your efforts, you will never grow. This is why non prepared or non talented people become leaders that keep bringing down people and promotong their "friends" over and over again. Company does not plan ahead, they improvise a lot for this reason there are always "emergency situations" that require double work, double effort and overtime. They save money on trainings as well, therefore you will be trained by your senior/manager that does not know how to teach and will just read some slides instead of coaching.

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