If you want a real career - keep walking
Pros
- great flexibility - pace can be fast which is good, keeps you busy - great offices. - safety is taken seriously - it's actually pretty easy to rise up the ranks if you just keep telling GMs and VPs how intelligent and insightful they are. Rub that massive ego and you'll go places! (But it's actually soul destroying given how genuinely mediocre the vast majority are.)
Cons
BHP is begining to realise it has a SERIOUS management issue. Years of friends promoting under qualified favourites that look like a great poster boy/girl are now showing the cracks. Leadership quality is seriously low. If you want a good mentor, look externally. There was a time when BHP paid well. Now they pay below market. Very much a culture of bullying and playing favourites at manager and head of level. Ethics point complaints can be swept under the rug by head of level and yes, this happens. Many 'head of' and managers operate in unethical manners but they absolutely get away with it, because their 1up, 2up etc has the same outlook. Some pockets of the business are well known (externally and internally) for being absolutely toxic. Promotions of friends is rife and 80% of the job adverts you see for manager levels - someone is already 'arranged' for that role.
