Shell Lubricants - a peanut department in Shell - Anonymous employee Shell Employee Review

2.0
Dec 7, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

a FMCG business model in an energy company organisation is run on a budget/shoe-string people are generally friendly and supportive Diversity, a business that contains the highest number of "non-Shell breed" professional - many experienced recruits Progression is faster compared to other business, but reaches the limit very fast at very young age - either you're then stuck or move to other business- commercial B2B

Cons

Considered an "outside" in Shell, not a core business salary way below that of Upstream + Downstream + Chemical Serious lack of graduate No structured training for graduate Not a place to grow your career in Shell - career graveyard - but good place to gain a feel of how FMCG works in reality

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