Petrobras reviews

4.6

95% would recommend to a friend

(436 total reviews)
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Jean Paul Prates

72% approve of CEO

83% positive business outlook

Petrobras has an employee rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars, based on 436 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Petrobras employee rating is 33% above average for employers within the Energía, minería e infraestructura pública industry (3.5 stars).

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436 reviews
2.0
Oct 8, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

We have a great source of knowledge here, very good people and colleagues to tutorials. No doubt a good place for those who want to learn. Petrobras has large oil reserves to explore and new opportunities should arise with the growth of the company, but she only hires Brazilian or naturalized Brazilians by public examinations. Petrobras also hires other companies that perform services for it. These companies pay better than Petrobras itself and the benefits are almost the same. These companies hire foreigners and in these companies you have a lot of mobility.

Cons

Unfortunately the ability of the leaders still leaves much to be desired. If you have the good fortune they sent you to a department with a good leader, congratulations, if not, there are rare the cases of someone getting an internal transfer. It´s common the cases of people asking for dismissal due to poor management and lack of internal mobility. The company has over 50,000 employees with almost no mobility, even if the person is necessary at another position. It will all depend on your boss, and his boss, and his boss, and his boss. Despite the great effort of the company to develop leadership skills, a gap of 10 years without hiring, and with great stability of the employees who were already in the company at 1990´s created a scenario that should improve the management capacity only in 5 or 10 years.

2.0
Jul 5, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good health benefits. Nice "worry free" work enviroment.. If you are a lazy person, you will be treated as well as those you make an effort..

Cons

No career development. The management team has not realized yet, that Petrobras is not as important here as it is is Brazil. They still believe that working for Petrobras is the same as going to heaven, therefore you should forever be thankful, and need to have you mouth shut.. People in management are all friends and family doing favors to each other, here just to put their kids in college and hire them, as most of them will not pass the exam in Brazil.

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