Aramco Americas Reviews

While the medical benefits are good and reasonably price, the salary/compensation is not competitive at all. Compared to the industry average, I was severely underpaid and overworked. This company is all for show, most positions don't require you to use your degree you earned, and do not require a degree in order for you to do your job effectively. We are all just paper pushers that serve the parent company Saudi Aramco Organization (SAO), who by the way is very aggressive and unappreciative of all of our efforts and time spent to get the material they need because they failed to plan effectively in Kingdom. Working at ASC is not mentally stimulating and you are literally not challenged in a way that is productive to increase your knowledge and growth in the Oil & Gas industry. The challenges you deal with on a daily basis are the inefficient internal processes that prevent you from streamlining a process that could be made simple. SAO is extremely aggressive and you will receive literally about 100 emails overnight. You MUST reply to all emails before they get escalated which is a serious problem because it delays you from getting your work done. You can tell SAO that something is made-to-order and the manufacturer cannot improve the date, but regardless, they will send you multiple emails telling you to improve the date even if you have informed them that it is impossible. You will monitor your emails more than you work your assigned queue, which is ridiculous. It's hard for everyone to advance and get a promotion. This is especially true if you are a woman. Every few years they rotate the managers, and the managers come in with a mindset that they need to "fix or improve" the current processes without fully understanding the processes that are currently in place. Get ready to deal with all of the inefficiencies that come along with that. The current processes that are in place already are extremely inefficient and this causes your day-to-day responsibilities difficult to complete. There is a lot of red tape you have to deal with just to place an order or have to fix once an order is placed. An example is how the P&L internal procedures are set up for INTERNAL auditing purposes only. Slight changes to these inefficient internal procedures would NOT allow external auditors to come in and shut down our company, so I'm not sure why they like to work harder and not smarter.

Whatever prince MBS is trying to accomplish, the Saudi managers at ASC is destroying it. Saudi managers who are mostly “rejects from Saudi Aramco” are the Gods of this small office. They come from being nothing, their own people don’t want you, to becoming the Gods in America. ASC is becoming the “dumping site” for Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia. Since in Arabia they cannot fire incompetent workers, especially managers, they get rid of them by sending them to America, ASC. Chapter 8s are even worse. They are spoiled Saudis who come to ASC for fun and checking out the women. It seems they leave behind their religion and basic human manners. The prince is trying to promote his 2030 vision and encourage Americans to explore Saudi Arabia and these Saudi managers are turning the vision into a nightmare. At ASC, we have never seen such incompetent managers in recent ASC history. They are violating many civil and labor laws and the EEOC has been alerted. Several EEOC federal complaints against one department manager, Procurement, have been filed. They moved ASC back to the oldest building in downtown, Allen Center. 40+ year old building with stinch smell and broken elevators. Spending millions to renovate the floors. What a smart move to spend millions on a place you are renting. Prince MBS should be proud of such smart decisions and judgements. Finally, hypocrisy at high levels, spending money at local charities so they come on TV while treating your own workers like villains.