BHP reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(2,585 total reviews)
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Mike Henry

85% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

BHP has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,585 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BHP employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energía, minería e infraestructura pública industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Apr 13, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary. Great benefits, pretty good comradery amount the individual contributors but this is due to being constantly assaulted by managements yes man culture.

Cons

Open plan work environment. No career development. Only way to move to new roles is through formal interview process. These new roles are only posted when a business unit needs someone "to hit the ground running". If you are not on the hipot list you have no hope of advancement. Senior managers are extremely arrogant and inflexible even though the majority of them have no track record of success.

2.0
Feb 25, 2017

Poorly Managed

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Average wage, interesting technical work, shop-level employees are down to earth and fairly sympathetic to each other's struggle in this subversive environment.

Cons

Management have gone mad, since mid 2014 the mine has gone downhill. There is a bizarre obsession with hack-psychology - courses, ways of dealing with people, charts and posters which can be damaging to wellbeing and quite frankly, dangerous. It will take somebody to harm themselves because they are so scrambled up for the place to realise that it isn't such a good idea to be spruiking this quasi-mind control. The push for 'women in mining' has been done in such a way which leaves many male employees feeling disenfranchised and many female employees feeling embarrassed. Employees are judged on perception rather than merit. Even more troubling is that employees are pushed out using extremely subversive tactics. The culture encourages employees to worship management. There is an extreme level of megalomania going on right from the top, which seems unnecessary. Nobody in their right mind could think that treating employees in this way could have any positive effect on the business, which leaves me to assume that it is nothing more than an ego trip which has got way out of hand. The current rates of attrition are a direct result of the above. Don't think that this review is motivated by a grudge - I am a high performing employee who, to be honest has probably benefited from these entrenched managerial defects more than I have suffered. It doesn't make it right though.

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