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      3.8

      67% would recommend to a friend

      (7,128 total reviews)
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      Meg O’Neill

      63% approve of CEO

      45% positive business outlook

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      bp has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,128 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The bp employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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      7K reviews
      4.0
      Aug 24, 2008

      Best place I have worked

      Process operator
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Fair pay for a fair job. Good share scheme and excellent pension scheme. Opportunities to move on. Flexible with regard to time off and they place an emphasis on quality training. You dont feel hounded by management all the time and they give you space to do your job effectively. If you can dodge the bullet til retirement day then you will be relatively well off in retirement.

      Cons

      People have to reapply for jobs every few years. Constant specualtion about breaking up R&M and E&P. Share price is a bit low recently (but then thats a problem people without good share schemes dont have I suppose)

      3.0
      Aug 22, 2008

      Having to reapply for your job each year because management want to change something

      Accounts analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The shares and bonus you get. Also the compressed working week they do but stopping in Jan as they are making cut backs but can still afford to sponser London 2012 which is going to cost them about £40M. The xmas parties were always good but sure we probably wont be getting one of these either this year.

      Cons

      Having to reapply for your job each year because management want to change something and then you end up with the same job anyway. Total waste of time. The air con in the office doesn't work. the food in the canteen is gross. My manager has no people skills at all.

      3.0
      Aug 21, 2008

      Peter Sutherland may be "leading" BP but as an employee you wouldn't know it - the Board is invisible

      Contractor
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Innovation, vision, importance of energy, political importance. The oil and gas industry is at the centre of most things going on in the world. It is endlessly interesting. There is a great can-do mentality in the business.

      Cons

      size, way company is structured, clientism/patronage, lack of recognition. Since the downsizing of the 1990s the company has been run as a kind of confederation in which busines units have wide autonomy and, from the employee perspective, it is near-impossible to plan a career - so everyone has a short term mentality and they key to success and longevity is to hitch your wagon to a rising star/growing asset

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