Pros
- Good salary, bonuses and benefits, significantly better than peer group - Good office location in the Galleria area of Houston - Workload is light: you will not be expected - or empowered - to achieve very much
Cons
- Extremely bloated process-driven bureaucracy where you need to ask several layers of management permission to do anything - No pretence towards merit-based performance management, everything is politics - Dissatisfying work environment: unless you tell your managers what they want to hear, you will be punished (i.e. "perception is reality") - Lack of diversity: women and minorities are under-represented and under-appreciated - Unhealthy obsession with budget activities and managing earnings, surprising for a company with such a large market cap. - Petroleum CEO is a micro-manager who insists on seeing and deciding on every little thing, no matter how trivial