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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3.0
Feb 26, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1) The benefits, hands down, are among the top in the industry. -Great health insurance -Base salary right at industry average, additional bonus (bringing total pay up to the top quarter of the industry) -$2 Lunch -9/80's, or the option for half-day Friday 2) People are generally very friendly and helpful (especially if you are new). No one I have encountered seems to be "in it for themselves." 3) Career development is taken very seriously here; it's handled much better than I've seen at any other company I've worked for. If you work hard, you will be rewarded and promoted.

Cons

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.

1.0
Feb 4, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good salary, bonuses and benefits, significantly better than peer group - Good office location in the Galleria area of Houston - Workload is light: you will not be expected - or empowered - to achieve very much

Cons

- 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

2.0
Mar 2, 2019

New organization

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Just promoted 3 women into executive roles. Half the reports to the CEO are women. BHP appears to be making good progress on the diversity and gender equality fronts.

Cons

The capable, proactive, and smart women in the middle of the Petroleum organization were pushed to Shale, then flushed out of the company. The problem remains. Women are treated poorly. The male team leaders feel empowered to be jerks and blackball women, especially those with an opinion and don’t suck up. It’s still a Old Boys club, and where it’s progressed on diversity the men who are gay or from outside the US are the ones who get promoted. White and American are being phased out. BHP has abandoned gender equality and replaced it with gender visibility. It’s not the same thing.

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