Shell reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(13,617 total reviews)
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63% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Shell has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 13,617 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
2.0
Aug 29, 2016

Horrible

Recommend
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Pros

Can engage in conversation with friendly customers. Free food (after they've been taken off the heat rack)

Cons

Basic pay. ALWAYS on your feet. Worst breaks ever. Once I did a night shift (I'll explain the cons of that next) 10pm to 6am and asked to carry on working. We had the busiest ever morning and I finally left at around 1pm. I had to ask for a 10 minute break baring in mind I had NO BREAK during my night shift. I thought it would be fair on myself to extend that by 5 minutes and got told off. I repeat, I HAD NO BREAK DURING MY NIGHT SHIFT AND HAD TO ASK FOR A MINI BREAK AFTER THE BUSY PERIOD. DON'T do a night shift. The amount of tasks there are to do is crazy AND potentially you could never get a break. In between your tasks you have to also serve (drunk) customers through a window. One shift it took me 3 hours to NOT watch an episode of South Park.

2.0
Jul 31, 2016

A place that can ruin a career

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

A decent salary and benefits, friendly colleagues

Cons

Some mid level managers and team leads have too much power and they use year end reviews to penalize staff for the smallest mistakes. Too much emphasis placed on new hires recruited via the graduate scheme and it makes experienced hires feel they are not valued. Too many processes to follow and this makes it difficult to get things done Too dependent on vendors to do almost everything

2.0
Jul 10, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

-Good focus on safety and operational excellence -Compensation was/is competitive for the most part

Cons

-HR run organization that does not develop the right people for the right roles -Development opportunities highly dependent on relationships rather than performance -Offboarding practices for unretained staff borderline cruel

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