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4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

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62% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Shell has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 13,593 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Shell employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energía, minería e infraestructura pública industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Feb 4, 2016

Shell IT is Poor IT employer in India

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Since oil prices are coming down all over the globe, shell is running in loss and all of a sudden decided to open its inhouse IT solution in bangalore since bangalore is the IT talent hub in india. Shell is shutting down many global IT centres including malaysia and canada and has planned to bring all these jobs to bangalore. All this while shell has outsourced its IT part to multiple IT service companies all over the world including India.But due to loss of many big IT projects, these IT services companies have hidden grudges over shell and shell employees and they are the trouble creators in india for successful project transition from their company to shell.Though shell is providing lucrative salary packages in india, but shell lacks proper planning, effective and matured decision making,controlling chaotic environment and strategic thinking. Shell is not at all prepared to protect and support its employees under this situation. Its just that under budget pressure they have decided to go for inhouse IT in bangalore without any risk mitigation plans. Shell IT in bangalore is nothing more than a normal IT start-up company and Shell's brand value does not contribute much to this IT Start-Up. The hires are majorly from Indian service based companies without a mindset of proper vision,professionalism and maturity. Many of the candidiates are not turning up for shell interviews due to this reason.

Cons

Package is not everything but career,good opportunities,matured management matters.

2.0
Oct 29, 2016
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Pros

Shell claims work life balance and full time regular employment but it actually like a fixed period contract with the risk of job insecurity - every employee has to look and apply for new job within Shell after fixed period (max 4 years) like finding a new employment and has to leave company if unsuccessful even individual performance rating is excellent. By design, Company hide this policy from the prospective employee before joining Shell India otherwise good talent (specially from Oil & Gas Public sector) will shy away from the company.

Cons

Shell India want to hire best talent (renowned experienced professionals, IIT graduates) but provide no job security. These best talents are fired at any time without assigning any reason. Shell believes in hire and fire policy but will not say in open. For example, Shell India hired new IIT graduate to honour their campus commitment but will also fires their senior from previous years at the same time to keep the number in check. Shell also claims career progression for employee but there are many examples where excellent experienced profession are forced to leave company jeopardizing their career ambitions.

2.0
Sep 13, 2024
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Pros

Work Life Balance, Good Offices and Amenities, Global HR policies, Employees Health and Safety

Cons

Reviews which do not fall under IT might be true, but when it comes to IT, Shell is no less than any other service based company. Most of the employees that were settled down here, earlier they used to work for shell account from Accenture/Wipro/IBM. Hence there is a preference for hikes & promotions to the people from the above companies. In the past few years a lot of people who used to work as contractors from those companies were made permanent employees. In some cases without any such visible requirement. This has resulted in unnecessary increase in headcount. Hence Global Leadership team decided to implement cost cutting in the name of Re-org. So Job security is the thing of past in Shell. Most of the managers or people in higher position will be from Accenture/IBM/Wipro, mostly Accenture. It can be termed as B team of Accenture. If you are about to join the company thinking that it is a product based company, you are under false impression.

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