BHP reviews

1) Roughly 60% of the Houston workforce has less than 1 year experience at BHP. Huge knowledge deficit, little training. 2) Things take a comically long time to get done, due to BHP's archaic, drawn-out processes with respect to ALL aspects of the business. That seems to be the culture here. 3) General perceptions of management are that they don't care, and that they don't understand processes themselves. How can they expect people to effectively do their jobs when they dispense poor advice? 4) Delegation of work can sometimes be an issue. Some people have too much; others have too little. This applies to every group.

- Extremely bloated process-driven bureaucracy where you need to ask several layers of management permission to do anything - No pretence towards merit-based performance management, everything is politics - Dissatisfying work environment: unless you tell your managers what they want to hear, you will be punished (i.e. "perception is reality") - Lack of diversity: women and minorities are under-represented and under-appreciated - Unhealthy obsession with budget activities and managing earnings, surprising for a company with such a large market cap. - Petroleum CEO is a micro-manager who insists on seeing and deciding on every little thing, no matter how trivial