Shell reviews

This company is over-burdened by "process" and general overhead in comparison to actual work. It really over-burdens the staff. I spend 90% of my time dealing with "process" as opposed to real work. When i started work with this company in year 2000, it was 90% work and 10% process. Over the years the trend reversed to the point where "process" greatly exceeds work. I am paid as a glorified Admin assistant instead of an IT professional. I am part of the Shell Trading organization. Trading is essentially a Financial Services organization with different requirements and needs from the parent company. Unfortunately, Shell treats the Trading division just like the rest of the oil company. Shell applies a "one size fits all" methodology to all the business units.

The largest obstacles to success are created internally. Unfortunately, it is part of a matrix organization where different departments with different hierarchies within the larger Shell family have conflicting objectives and performance benchmarks. Frequent rotation amongst the highest levels of management result in changes in strategy every three or four years, often before the existing strategy has been fully implemented.