Shell reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(13,614 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 13,614 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
Mar 13, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

* Pay * Possibility of pension * Possibility of cancer treatment for you and family * Some people your work with *Supports diversity *Preaches safety Only recommend this place if your looking for a higher salary (overall benefits actually suck)

Cons

Something along the lines of 'Nimble as a mid-major, capable as a Super Major'.... was a slogan that was paraded around the office, this couldn't be further from truth. I laughed every time I heard it or saw it written down. * Your constantly working in fear b/c of reorganizations/layoffs. I was with Shell for two years and survived three reorganizations... let that sink in, three reorganizations within two years... * US leadership is inept; Shell is EXTREMELY top heavy and they don't care about the individual contributor. To survive and move up in the organization its all about politics. New roles are created for leadership when their position is eliminated/reorg'ed. * Little to no diversity in leadership * Terrible work-life balance, working through lunch and after hours was a norm, very lean teams * Shell does a poor job leveraging technology and relies heavily on its people, burn out was constant; spreadsheets without analytics or dashboards. Things could easily be automated but leadership has no interest in it b/c of the work/testing/downtime involved, business as usual attitude. * Majority of IT is outsourced to consultants in India where turnover is rampant... Good luck getting an IT project/initiative off the ground without delays or having something somewhere else break. * New initiatives are constantly being rolled out only to be ignored or replaced a few months later. * They are slowly "migrating"/outsourcing jobs out of the US. Majority of IT and Accounting is already outsourced to Asia. Rumors were HR is on the chopping block next * Extremely inefficient process flows, leadership has little to no interest in addressing it * Benefits are actually lousy: 3% 401k match; a windowed RDS share purchase plan; hardly any local, regional, or national offers; health insurance is EXPENSIVE; etc. * Its great that you preach safety, but your record speaks otherwise

1.0
Jan 8, 2021

Freshers Beaware!

Recommend
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Pros

Work Life balance and Culture is great.

Cons

-Improper Role Mapping: As a fresher I was hired as a Software Engineer but was mapped to an analyst position. I wanted to code, but all I do now is attend meetings, work on excel and word documents. -Very Few IT projects: Most of the IT projects here are outsourced to service based companies like TCS, Accenture, wipro etc. Higher management is clueless about technologies here. Most of the applications run here on outdated(soon to be decommissioned) technologies and systems. -Inflexibility of Role Switch: HR has a company wide policy which says you can switch your role only after 4 years which is completely stupid. Why let someone work in the same role if he/she isn't interested in it. Advice to freshers : Do not join this company blindly. Even if they are paying you a good salary there's a very less chance that you will be mapped to a good and correct role. Out of 100 students who joined shell in my batch only around 6-10 got a good role. Rest of them are just stuck here. You won't be able to build up your technical skills. During a recent layoff cycle few got impacted, now they don't have any skill to switch to a good company.

1.0
Jan 4, 2021

Recovery Agents

Recommend
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Pros

The companies uses recovery agents to harass you after they pay you huge sums as bonus and then fire you. This is one company that thats unethical and corrupt to the core.

Cons

Unethical, Corrupt and Bad HR that arm twists you for everything.

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