Shell reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(13,593 total reviews)
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Wael Sawan

62% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Shell has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 13,593 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Shell 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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14K reviews
2.0
Jan 24, 2025

Disingenuous

Recommend
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Pros

Decent salary, benefits and work/life balance

Cons

The strategy under the new CEO, Wael, is short-sighted and focuses exclusively on short-term shareholder returns and boosting stock price, at the expense of committing to a sustainable greener future as promised under the previous CEO. Cutting renewables projects while also reorganizing and laying off thousands of employees from more traditional hydrocarbon roles after a few years of record profits, while also not announcing anything in any forum or any fashion about a company-wide reorg (which given the scale, it absolutely is) reeks of a disingenuous motive that belongs in the camp of greedy selfish billionaires looking to maximize profit at any cost. Shell has always claimed to care about people but unfortunately this is not the company under Wael. There is also no career progression anymore in the company - all of the middle management layers have been removed. You can progress to a senior individual contributor and remain there doing essentially the same type of work for over a decade.

1.0
Jul 20, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

I have nothing to say here as i did not find anything. There are a lot of fake reviews for "SBO Bangalore" with 5 star rating so please which are genuine.

Cons

My biggest career mistake was to join SBO bangalore. If you are in IT , you will certainly loose all your IT Skills. Inflated CTC, frequent reorgs/restructure, un-certainty, job-insecurity are some of the notable features. All roles are 4 year contract only. Leadership with no vision, and who believe in micromanagement. If you are a people manager and that too in Bangalore, you will not be respected by the bosses sitting in UK and Nederland. All the talk about inclusive culture is just a showoff.

3.0
Jul 17, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Environment of safety, diversity, good place for developing a commercial mindset.

Cons

1. Not a good place for technically inclined. Hardly has a Software engineering culture. 2. Work culture is inconsistent. You may experience product side of the company and tomorrow you may feel like you're in a service based company. Depends on the manager. 3. Frequent reorganization, happens every 15 months on average and takes 6 months to finish. 4. Salaries are not competitive. It doesn't matter if you have niche skills, you're always paid the same salary irrespective of the skill level leading to attrition of top talents. 5. Outdated promotion mechanism. 6. Slow decision making.

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