Pros
Good 401K match at 9% + plus a pension, BUT you only get the pension if you stay minimum 5 years. Good medical benefits (health insurance is worldwide). 9/80 meaning you work 9 hour days and get every other Friday off .
Cons
While the medical benefits are good and reasonably price, the salary/compensation is not competitive at all. Compared to the industry average, I was severely underpaid and overworked. This company is all for show, most positions don't require you to use your degree you earned, and do not require a degree in order for you to do your job effectively. We are all just paper pushers that serve the parent company Saudi Aramco Organization (SAO), who by the way is very aggressive and unappreciative of all of our efforts and time spent to get the material they need because they failed to plan effectively in Kingdom. Working at ASC is not mentally stimulating and you are literally not challenged in a way that is productive to increase your knowledge and growth in the Oil & Gas industry. The challenges you deal with on a daily basis are the inefficient internal processes that prevent you from streamlining a process that could be made simple. SAO is extremely aggressive and you will receive literally about 100 emails overnight. You MUST reply to all emails before they get escalated which is a serious problem because it delays you from getting your work done. You can tell SAO that something is made-to-order and the manufacturer cannot improve the date, but regardless, they will send you multiple emails telling you to improve the date even if you have informed them that it is impossible. You will monitor your emails more than you work your assigned queue, which is ridiculous. It's hard for everyone to advance and get a promotion. This is especially true if you are a woman. Every few years they rotate the managers, and the managers come in with a mindset that they need to "fix or improve" the current processes without fully understanding the processes that are currently in place. Get ready to deal with all of the inefficiencies that come along with that. The current processes that are in place already are extremely inefficient and this causes your day-to-day responsibilities difficult to complete. There is a lot of red tape you have to deal with just to place an order or have to fix once an order is placed. An example is how the P&L internal procedures are set up for INTERNAL auditing purposes only. Slight changes to these inefficient internal procedures would NOT allow external auditors to come in and shut down our company, so I'm not sure why they like to work harder and not smarter.