ONEOK Reviews

Current Employee – been working at ONEOK full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – work environment, people, pay, benefits, opportunity

Cons – Large company. Some things move slow.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ONEOK full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great coworkers, everyone wants and tries to do a first rate job. There's minimal micromanagement so you are in charge of getting your own job done correctly. Benefits are excellent but they are less generous than other large O&G companies. Good work/life balance as long as you don't over commit yourself to too many projects.

Cons – You don't want to do to well otherwise you'll be promoted up and have to move to lame Tulsa.

With any company this size, there's going to be a bit of bureaucracy. It's a bit difficult to navigate at first since everyone expects you to just know who to talk to.

Advice to Senior Management – Be quicker to make decisions. There seems to be a lot of effort and money spent treading water when the direction is plainly obvious.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ONEOK full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – 2 weeks vac from start
Average benefits

Cons – Where do I start......
Market Based pay is a big sham. VP sat in the last meeting and simply stated that ONEOK will never be the top pay in any market. If you are just looking for top pay then ONEOK is not for you Per our VP.Then why is our CEO the top paid executive in Tulsa, OK? If I sat in a room with members from other energy companies in tulsa that do the same job I would be embarrased to bring up what I make yearly for the job. Your lower level supervisor's won't argue with you during reviews as they know this is true and losing people left and right because of it.

Keep trying to push wellness programs to finally catch up to what the rest of the industry has had or been available for the last 5 years. Oneok just talks and preaches wellness. They don't offer anything you couldn't go out and get on your own dime and probably should. Should offer some benefit dollars for keeping fit and maintaining good health.

Advice to Senior Management – Bring up the payscale for your employee's that still perform and even try to go above and beyond. Most are still trying to do an exceptional job for you. Let the folks that simply show up and sit on their rumps reap the supposed benefits of the market based pay and reward the people that you would like to see stick around and devolop into to leaders of this company. Stop bringing in new hire trainee's at with '0" experience at pay that people with 5-10 years are barely at. Makes no sense and only angers the people that have fought,kicked, and scratched for every raise they have received.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ONEOK full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Its a pay check and a JOB. The benefits are better than having none at all.

Cons – Everything! Micromanagement from the top (Tulsa office cause they are KINGS) down. The Market based pay structor is used to not give any raises or salary adjustments. According to Oneok the market has not changed for 2 years and for some 4 years. Other companies have giving 3 to 3.5% COL's. If your not in the clique your're an expendable employee. Some have lost 5 to 7% bring home pay since we have been with Oneok. Not competitive as far as operations group, for the industry standard.

Advice to Senior Management – Get all the Ex-Koch and Enron folks out of the top positions in Tulsa. Koch was a horrible company to work for and Oneok has just be a name change and the culture has stayed the same.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ONEOK as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Great company, great leadership, great co-workers. This company is truly a shining star in the natural gas and natural gas liquids field. Flexible hours and great pay was one of many benefits that came with interning with ONEOK.

Cons – There is not anything bad that can really be said about the company. ONEOK does possess an aging employee population, but is doing a good job recruiting younger talent.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep the tradition of excellence going ONEOK is a great place to work and grow as an employee continue to do the things that brought the company to this point.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at ONEOK

Pros – Texas Gas Service is part of ONEOK and you get decent benefits.
ONEOK in Oklahoma seems pretty stable, TX business unit tanking
Work hours in some areas of company are 8-5
Employee stock share program

Cons – Management and long-time employees were slashed and burned in last 6 months. New TGS management is even worse, but ONEOK Exec. team in OK does not know and does not care that great employees are jumping ship as a result. Micromanagement to a soul-crushing, disempowering degree. Torturous new time-consuming processes for field and engineering to get projects approved. Have implemented rules such as no talking to co-workers, reviewing times for entering and exiting building (for salaried employees), daily log of every email and call made to make sure employees are "really" working. Rules are necessary, but it had become more of a prison-style, toxic atmosphere than a productive, respectful workplace.

Advice to Senior Management – CEO gives major lip service to "employee development" but on the state utility level in Texas, there is no such thing. You can't wipe your behind without asking for permission, much less go to a training or work development trip that could further growth. Advice: Stop the flow of great employees out the door by getting the TGS management from president on down to service center management in check...maybe listen to actual employees' feedback (service specifically). The ship is sinking-try to rectify it now or lose tons of marketshare to electric. Even HR is being browbeaten by new local management for hiring "bad" employees--but the robotic new management has no idea how to motivate and empower their new teams. Make local leadership care about employees or show them the door.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at ONEOK full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – ONEOK's core business in natural gas is steady and has a good long-term future. Employment practices are conservative and they avoid the need to "right-size" in down times.

Cons – Due to their conservative practices, their pay tends to be below market. They strive to make up for this with much better than average benefits; however, most employees would rather have that additional $ in their pockets each pay day.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay for performance at market. Capable employees will leave even a great company like ONEOK if they are not compensated competitively. This tends to result in a surplus of lesser-caliber employees who remain with ONEOK only because no one else will hire them away.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ONEOK full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great benefits, competitive salary, friendly work environment.

Cons – None at this time. Good company

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you are doing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ONEOK full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – laid back atmosphere, good benefits, strong company to be with. They match 6% 401K and they are very involved in the community in Oklahoma.

Cons – The market based pay system seems to be very low in the market that you are in. Management won't argue with this they know it's true.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote from within. Don't let great employee's leave over pay.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ONEOK

Pros – Average comp
Good bonus
Plenty of vacay
Great asset base
Laid back work place (at least at ONG)

Cons – Professional and career development are talked about but not specifically addressed nor are they acted upon.
Lots of dead weight in the work force and it seems ONG won't fire someone unless they break the law. This drags down the rest of the company.
Over staffed and not enough work to keep everyone busy. Typical of a quasi governmental entity like a utility.
Low wages compared to other companies.

Advice to Senior Management – Communicate possible career development plans or processes to employees so they can have an attainable career goal to work towards.
Bump salary so employees won't leave.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend