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4.0
Mar 17, 2025
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Pros

Managers always helpful, decent hours and ok pay for young people

Cons

Often working alone so can be dull and experience dodgy customers in retail as always

4.0
Apr 1, 2025
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Great mentoring if you have the right line managers, decent benefits and pay

Cons

Politics in certain departments that lead to stress despite the workload being manageable.

3.0
Mar 11, 2025

Average

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Pros

Best work life balance Availability of budget for professional skills Up skilling

Cons

1.My managers manager promoted women (who doesn't have any field experience, they hardly have 3 yrs desk experience) just because his gpa target even they are not eligible for promotion, Im not against for promoting women, but ignoring eligible experienced men hurts me, D&I is important, but just to complete GPA, promoting non eligible women is not at all acceptable. 2.Pay, company always speaking about peers when it comes to share price performance, but not comparing employees pay with same peers. Exxon and Chevrom pays were way high compared shell pay. 3. LT team encourage to ask questions, but if you ask questions which are not comfortable to answer, you will be rated low.

2.0
Apr 13, 2025
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Good balance work-private life Good manager

Cons

No / limited growth opportunities Company processes old and sticky

5.0
Apr 3, 2025
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Pros

Good Compensation beats our Industry Avg at any point of time. Flexible and work life balance Diversity and Inclusion is well celebrated Centuries old reputation in its sector. proud to be associated with big gaints.

Cons

too much power vested in immediate reporting manager though skip level is encouraged but happens rarely. HR dept is not autonomous and is a mere function who runs the show as per whims and fancies of Leadership

1.0
Mar 4, 2025
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Pros

Shell was good when it moved its IT delivery and operations into India during 2015. But the culture has taken a dip post pandemic.

Cons

1. No vision at all from IT Executives. Shell hired staff and contractors left and right between 2020 - 21, and now have been firing people left and right since 2022. 2. No job security at all. There are frequent re-organisations. Sometimes, almost every year. Whenever there is re-organization there is lay off of staff. 3. Not merit based organization. You get retained in the company, not on the basis of merit but on the basis of people you know. There is no value for work you do and the outcome. 4. Human care is just on paper. There is absolutely no human care and it's just on paper and for show off. In essence, no leader or manager cares for staff's health and growth. 5. In the name of DE&I women staff get promotions, though not all deserving. Which certainly is having a long-term impact on leadership pipeline and vision of the company.

4.0
Feb 25, 2025
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Pros

Strong DEI culture (I can vouch as a young, Asian woman in a male-dominated field) Even stronger safety culture Access to a global network of professionals, technical experts, and business leaders Top quartile salaries and non-monetary benefits* within country *inc. healthcare, training opportunities

Cons

Career opportunities are typically limited to what's in your base country, as well as the reach/influence of your line manager. It doesn't seem like the talent pipeline is managed as proactively anymore, especially now that HR is mostly outsourced to hubs like Manila. Pay is largely driven by your base country. For example: Given two expats with the same roles & duties in the same asset/location, the one from a 1st world country like the UK or NL will be paid waaaay more than the other from a 3rd world country because pay is relative to what's competitive where you came from, rather than just the value of your skills. Should be fine if you've already accepted your fate, born into being cheap labor 🤷🏻‍♀️

1.0
Feb 17, 2025

More Pros and less Cons

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Pros

More CTC- So that you can contribute to the nation building by giving 60-70% of your CTC to the government in direct & indirect taxes, Best world class leaders- Top level management is the best for their own benefit. One can learn from them how to be selfish & squeeze the JG2 and below so that they can get more stocks & CTC (their performance is directly linked to the amount of blood they squeeze, the more your blood reduces the higher their performance bonus & package) Learn from Leaders - one can easily learn from leaders on how to be a double standard person. You can have all the cost cutting and restrictions for the actual work but when it comes to their travel & need they can do it any time as it's business critical to go from one location to another to shake hands with other folks in their location. But when you want to travel for a project purpose you can't because travel will emit a lot of CO2 which will destroy the nature & company needs to save cost so that their package can be increased. Makes you feel special & healthy - Top folks & County Chair Team will make you feel special by making you work extra in India and paying you just as much that one can barely buy peanuts ensuring that your health remains at optimum level so that you deliver all the tasks and their package, Bonus & stocks increases. Work from Home - Literally it means work from home a comfort that you have because one needs to work for 15-16 hrs to ensure that your contribution helps top level travel more, work less and enjoy more comfort in their pay package and benefits. Make you feel rich:- Pay structure is so wonderful that we you feel you are from the lineage of Ambani & Adani and you don't need  money in your hand. I was so moved by this gesture I almost went to Antilia to stay with my family. Makes you believe in reincarnation- no matter which faith you belong to top management ensures they are not biased and you believe in reincarnation so that you can do your non office work in your next life. Healthier team - Management ensures that they run special events to pressurize the staff every year as reorg (fancy names like Reshape, Evolution etc..). As a result the top performers or the cream layer staff gets frustrated and moves out of the organization as a result the team is left with non cream staff (non performer) and hence healthy. We all know cream is not good for health & for company as well. Vocal for local -  Indian management is so pro vocal for locals that they will never let them out of the country & ensure that they are so deeply routed for the country that they do not ask to go out of the country for a job. Brings Maturity - within 4-5 months of joining you'll realise how mature you have become as you'll be taught that you have to work harder and harder so that the bank balance and perks increase yours but of the top management. Cost effective - Indian management is so cost effective that even after giving peanuts they will find a way to reduce that next year which helps them to increase their by the same percentage they reduce for others. Cost management - A speciality of the company is to manage cost effectively. They will reduce the spent on required things but will spend lavishly on things which are not required e.g. coffee area renovation every 2 years, world class speakers and amplifier to play music in the cafeteria where you can forget the office tension while eating lunch from a provider who cares less. Non biased approach - Top management not biased at all for diversity. They will ensure that there is a diversity at top level even though the person hired at the role doesn't know anything but that's okay as one of the goals of the organisation is to be a top Diversity and inclusive organisation. Fair Management - top management in india is consistently fair and non biased to the organisation goal. Irrespective of being the low cost establishment globally Indian management always ensure that the staff in India consistently gets lesser benefits, perks, bonus, stocks and salary compared to other establishments across the globe. Such a dedicated manager is rarely seen Charity driven organisation - after giving 50-60% to government in taxes company also expects to contribute to "Voluntarily" for causes such as Run for causes, NGO's hence driving a culture of charity so that employees feel they are rich and can contribute to these social causes.

Cons

Top level management, Double standard, Selfish management, Not employee friendly, Policy and Benefits

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