Shell reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(13,630 total reviews)
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Wael Sawan

63% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Shell has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 13,630 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
4.0
Sep 5, 2017

Can be great...

Recommend
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Pros

Great pay and benefits, travel, interesting jobs, intelligent colleagues

Cons

Out-sourcing more and more roles to cheaper countries, so no job security. Experience is no longer valued. Office closures and perceived poor decision making at the top has led to a lot of the work force being demotivated.

4.0
Sep 3, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice environment, great culture, professional and ethical attitude, various career opportunities, great social benefits and communities, very good facilities, global contacts.

Cons

Not beneficial salary policies and restrictions, limited strict rules for promotions, frequent reorganization changes, bad formation support or training, coaching.

4.0
Aug 29, 2017

Great Employer Overall

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Shell has a wonderful and extensive set of benefits. Additionally, Shell pays out good and fair salaries as well as incentivized performance bonuses and service recognition awards. Finally, Shell places a respectable focus on career development and employee well being.

Cons

Reorganizations, open resourcing and footprinting activities may seem a bit too frequent. Due to the management structure and corporate culture, one may at times feel that too much emphasis is placed on bending over backwards to perform inconsequential tasks and to drop much more meaningful tasks in order to do so. Typically this will be a simple mandate from above which leads to each subordinate level of management scrambling simply in order to please their superiors. There is also a tendency within Shell for various types of meetings to be presented as optional but for which management will deem "strongly suggested." Management seems mold words to their agendas as these strongly suggested meetings are optional on paper but in attitude are quite mandatory. Mandatory meetings are not a problem but honesty and decency demands that you call them such.

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