Politics and constant reorgs... - Upstream Analyst Shell Employee Review

Something along the lines of 'Nimble as a mid-major, capable as a Super Major'.... was a slogan that was paraded around the office, this couldn't be further from truth. I laughed every time I heard it or saw it written down. * Your constantly working in fear b/c of reorganizations/layoffs. I was with Shell for two years and survived three reorganizations... let that sink in, three reorganizations within two years... * US leadership is inept; Shell is EXTREMELY top heavy and they don't care about the individual contributor. To survive and move up in the organization its all about politics. New roles are created for leadership when their position is eliminated/reorg'ed. * Little to no diversity in leadership * Terrible work-life balance, working through lunch and after hours was a norm, very lean teams * Shell does a poor job leveraging technology and relies heavily on its people, burn out was constant; spreadsheets without analytics or dashboards. Things could easily be automated but leadership has no interest in it b/c of the work/testing/downtime involved, business as usual attitude. * Majority of IT is outsourced to consultants in India where turnover is rampant... Good luck getting an IT project/initiative off the ground without delays or having something somewhere else break. * New initiatives are constantly being rolled out only to be ignored or replaced a few months later. * They are slowly "migrating"/outsourcing jobs out of the US. Majority of IT and Accounting is already outsourced to Asia. Rumors were HR is on the chopping block next * Extremely inefficient process flows, leadership has little to no interest in addressing it * Benefits are actually lousy: 3% 401k match; a windowed RDS share purchase plan; hardly any local, regional, or national offers; health insurance is EXPENSIVE; etc. * Its great that you preach safety, but your record speaks otherwise