Apache Reviews

2.7

26% would recommend to a friend

(410 total reviews)

John J. Christmann, IV

12% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

Apache has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 410 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Apache employee rating is 26% below average for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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410 reviews
3.0
17 Feb 2024

generally good

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Able to achieve work-life balance

Cons

tedious job pattern and lack of career development

4.0
28 Jun 2016

Apache IT

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Are you degreed? Do you want to work for a CIO that “hates technology”? Are you attractive? Do you know how to mingle? Do you want to work for management that doesn’t support you? Are you superficial? Do you lack actual IT skills, but wear stylish socks? Do you want to work for a CIO that has never led an IT department, but is a college buddy of the CEO? Do you want to work at a company that hasn’t given us a raise in two years? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then Apache’s IT department is for you.

Cons

Can't think of any because Apache is a great company and there are so many people that look good. I'm not sure they will make their goal of wanting people to work at Apache IT instead of Anadarko IT. Currently Anadarko is still beating them.

1.0
23 Feb 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The only pro about working in this role is that you will be exposed to all facets regarding Oil & Gas business practices.

Cons

This is a highly demanding, pressure-cooking job and the pay is not worth the hassle to the lack of work-life balance that you will experience. Executive admins will make significantly more salary and only support one c-level exec whereas you will have to support all the executives and their admins. You will be pulled in so many directions and will not be backed up by IT management. You are literally on your own since no one wants to handle or interact with executives since there are walking land mines everywhere. You can provide the best customer service and will be back-stabbed and bad-mouthed by minimally talented executive admins. There is a long history regarding this IT Executive Desktop Support role. You will be told that they could not find the "right person" but the truth is that no one that has ever worked in this role has lasted longer than a year. This role becomes open year after year for the next unsuspecting prospective employee. It is shameful that Apache has not corrected this issue but this is very telling regarding their management and culture.

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