People at working level are great, but lots of Corporate BS to deal with - Senior Mining Engineer BHP Employee Review

- Bureaucratic to the point it can take a couple days (if not more) to get the things you need approved to do your job. Their new way of doing things was meant to improve processes.... but instead created MORE tedious, low-value administrative work and meetings that drain employees. - Recent change to performance assessments that was not well-communicated/transparent ahead of results being given at the end of the assessment cycle. They have moved to a model that compares your performance to your peers and your performance is on a forced distribution. This means to do well in this new model, you have to chase higher profile projects that give you "visibility"; in the end, your performance assessment result does not reflect your true value to the company, instead it's a reflection of how many managers or superintendents can vouch for your work. Basically, you can still do well in performance if you know how to game the system, even if your actual job competencies are sub-par. - Very insular. There is very little to no external benchmarking done on many work scopes to validate whether BHP is following the best approach. There is also a sense of arrogance in how they view themselves: "We are the best at what we do..." (even when they're not, but hard for them to see that if they're not benchmarking against or even learning/leveraging best practices from their competitors or the broader mining community). People become easily silo'd in their day to day jobs, but much of it has to do with how teams are structured. - For individual performance, they prioritize metrics that, at the end of the day, do not contribute to your professional development or, instead, have the opposite effect of what it's intended to do. For instance, you're expected to report how much overtime you work (related to fatigue management). You'll still be held to the completion of the work you're assigned by a certain deadline (even if the deadline isn't realistic), but they won't provide sufficient resources to allow for those deliverables to be completed within normal working hours. So you feel compelled to work overtime to get the work done, since delivering the work late has bigger consequences (especially if others rely your part of the work being done to progress their scope). And in the end, you underreport your overtime hours (if you report them at all), because going above a certain number of OT hours also counts against you when it comes to performance assessment time.