Kinder Morgan Reviews

The down side to Kinder Morgan is the corporate office and most of the stress I felt on the job originated there, not from my office. Though only separated by a few floors, interacting departments, (e.g. Project Management and Procurement), rarely communicated face to face or participated in meeting with each other. Some corporate employees including management were arrogant and condescending to those not in Houston. Company's constant focus on "cost" is ridiculous and emotionally draining over time. Computers are refreshed on a 7 year cycle and most of the programs and systems are home grown and seem 15 years behind the times. Not only are they cumbersome to use, most don't talk to each other, so you have to go to multiple places to get your information. Company has a very antiquated management style with the only progressive thing available being several flex-schedule options, but no telecommuting. Company recently centralized a department justifying it with a Jedi mind trick story full of corporate double speak. Bottom line, was a specific business unit had multiple instances of fraud so lets just bring everyone to Houston so we can micro-manage. The whole move speaks volumes about managements incompetence and inability to manage remote employees. Executive leadership continues to implement the same old fashioned thinking and practices of the primary founder. Listen to any executive VP or higher and you get the feeling this is how companies were run in the early careers of our parents. The stock price has been in the bottom of the peer group for years, with much smaller companies out performing them. The only reason my rating isn't a 2 or less is because of the pay and the fact I didn't have to put up with the drama in Houston everyday.

Cheap and rigid about everything. KM makes their own horrid software programs so they can avoid paying for licensing. Make work more difficult making everything some excel based document like it’s 1997, wastes time. Company is ran too lean compared to alike companies, each role typically has many more responsibilities compared to others. You’re constantly firefighting, progress cannot be made. LTIP is a carrot on a string. Just another item they threaten to take away. Poor culture; they give you the “if you don’t like it, there’s the door” type statement if you can have criticism. WORTHLESS HR. I had an issue when I was getting picked on by my manager and tried to transfer to a different department. I was going to get an offer but was blocked based on a lie about my work performance. HR didn’t even care to look into my complaint. I put in my two weeks and HR didn’t even bother to provide an exit interview, or even call to ask why. Marches to managements orders and isn’t afraid to display it.