This place is toxic - Anonymous employee Shell Employee Review

1.0
Jul 31, 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you manage to gut out 30 years…the benefit are fantastic. They do allow you to do many different things over your career.

Cons

Downstream is worse than upstream. These comments are related to downstream at Shell. Sr leaders do no stay in their roles long enough. Result….they don’t know what they are doing. They only manage for the qtr, week, day…not for long term profitability or viability. Everyone there is just looking to keep their head down so they don’t fired. They say you are free to speak your mind….you are not. You can say only what they want to hear…but really challenge and you will be gone at the next re-0rg. They Re-org about every 2-3 years. Not a great place to work.

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