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3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(7,117 total reviews)
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56% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

bp has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,117 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The bp employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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4.0
Oct 19, 2015

What a great place to work!

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Pros

Unlimited opportunities for advancement, supportive leadership and great training and development. I am a better person for having worked at BP, and will be forever grateful for the opportunities this organization provided. The benefits and work/life balance are also fantastic. This is an organization that truly lives by it's core values and that is really hard to find these days. I worked in one of the US HQ offices, and my perspective on personal safety is forever changed for the better because of my time at BP.

Cons

It is sometimes a BIG slow moving ship. Sometimes bureaucracy can slow down progress, and roles can become quite compartmentalized. Fortunately the endless opportunities and mobility help mitigate this issue.

1.0
Jan 23, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Pay (and that's about it)

Cons

This place is teeming with incompetent employees, especially managers. BP goes out of its way to protect incompetent managers that waste the company hundreds of millions of dollars instead of sacking them. The company is very clique-y and if you're not part of the ones that managers like, even if you do your job well, the managers will make sure to get rid of you and replace you with one of their buddies. It's very dogmatic and behind the times. BP is not a leader in the industry, it's a follower. Instead of coming up with new ideas, they just keep reworking the same problem over and over with the same mindset and never find a solution to anything. Anyone that tries to challenge dogma and come up with new ideas is considered a trouble-maker and someone that rocks the boat. Management doesn't want anyone to think outside the box and come up with solutions to problems, even though they say ad nauseam that they do, because God forbid that someone exposes their incompetence. All they want is complacent worker bees that keep their heads down and brown nose managers' insatiable egos. No wonder Exxon and the other majors think of BP as a joke. When this company continues to compare their performance to those of the minors instead of the majors, you know there's something seriously wrong. Instead of improving their standards, they just set the bar very low.

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