Woodside Energy Reviews

1) Long work hours in finance. Working late is celebrated and worn as a badge of honour next day. 2) Cut throat competition among coworkers - everyone chasing higher performance ratings and bonuses - brown nosing and working long hours to meet unreasonable demands from middle management who are themselves in a popularity contest to out do each other for limited senior management positions. 3) Company has a huge gap in workforce - employees are expected to meet harsh deadlines to an extent that they break down mentally and physically. 4) Lots of good buzz words/phrases are drilled into employees mind via internal communication and intranet e.g 80:20 , supporting each other, mental health etc. However the real company culture is toxic and none of this is actually followed in day to day work. Interactions among overworked colleagues are often "rude" and "impolite".

Company's alleged bribing in mauritania (AFP proved opposite) smartly evading aussie tax, etc... So expect similar culture once within. Performance review and rating is a joke, apparently based on a ranking curve where about 4/5 of rating is weighted on HR jargon; integrity, collaboration, ... In the back door it s based on other metrics -> how much you bow ur head to seniors Company Enforces to rate 35% as "not delivering", Some make it through hard work, but most through tackling workmates they re competing with. To thrive, it s best to join a wolvepack of bullies, that s sort of a gang where members do not compete with each other for performance ranking, and will tackle anyone else, till they all make it. Tackling tactics 1- can even include, a manager creating a scope worth lots of $, labour intensive, assigning it to another employee just to prove he is not competent, and i ve witnessed this said in done on others. 2- Or coming with genius improvement ideas, get them endorsed by upper management, assign them to coworkers and boss on them then get rewarded on expense of others. Other than performance, lots of tactics of creating constant conflict through the ranks of hierarchy to keep everyone scared, e.g. Kick a competent employee experienced from technical discipline A to manage B, people in B will resent their manager as seen less competent, and the manager will naturally take a position of fear and feeling threat from competent staff. Then hr will keep everyone under control with this lack of trust. Lots of experienced staff pushed into meaningless roles, till they hate their lives and choose to leave, so that company avoids an expensive redundancy. And this includes people who sacrificed more than 20 yrs of their career and did their best for company s interest. Company is aware of mental damage this is causing and offers limitless psychological support, like building a mechanic shop next to a pothole , instead of fixing it. Definitely not recommended to honest, value delivering people unless you are trading some extra pay on expense of wellbeing. But watch out, There s a record of suicide among woodside employees, and I believe it s way above average rate in general population. Company is highly recommended for junior-high bullying mentality. A fertile ground.