Shell reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(13,624 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 13,624 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 Énergie et exploitation des ressources naturelles industry (3.7 stars).

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14K reviews
3.0
Oct 15, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits, pay, company moving to environmentally better business.

Cons

Middle management is poor at their job. The don't walk the talk on DEI. They hire diverse but do not promote. They say they care about their people, but treat them the opposite.

2.0
Oct 12, 2021

Exciting but toxic.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Exciting. Challenging. Impactful. Intellectually stimulating.

Cons

Managers are mostly incompetent, unintelligent, and self serving, with no EQ whatsoever, and zero ability (or wilful ignorance/negligence) to predict the future, insofar as the effects of their choices and decisions are concerned, mostly focusing on myopic initiatives that make them look good to higher management, at the cost of their direct reports. Thus resulting in high attrition rates and burnouts. Nepotism and brown nosing are rampant, further fueling the proliferation of such managers. Career/growth opportunities (in a direction different from what management plans out for you behind closed doors) are virtually non-existent, unless aforementioned managers deem it necessary/appropriate, which is mostly not the case, since they need to ensure continuity of the workforce. The marginal succes of this organization can be attributed to young, ambitious graduates lured in with fanciful promises, with no idea of the environment that awaits them, and talented and hard working but jaded/disillusioned operators/mechanics. The Venus Flytrap of employers, in essence.

3.0
Sep 30, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits, Salary, Senior Leaders, and Facilities. Like most Oil and Gas companies, Shell pays well and has good benefits.

Cons

Woke Ideology, HR, Middle Management, and Graduate Program. HR is not straightforward with Graduate hires in terms of career progression and expectations. Too much focus on Woke ideology and conformity in the workplace.

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