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4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(13,591 total reviews)
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Wael Sawan

62% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Shell has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 13,591 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
Oct 7, 2018
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Pros

None I could find. Nothing.

Cons

Shell Business Operations - SBO Bangalore mass hired some employees without skills even from third class companies, you can judge that by attending their interview. SBO Bangalore is far from a product company. Full of service mentality people. Hence you know the company policies. They bother more on non work aspects,for e.g. what time you come? Have you completed 8 hours? No body asks you if you completed your work. Unless if you have a lobby/come from your managers company, your skills will not be respected even if you are a top performer. You might be asked to leave if you do not become part of the politics/lobby. It is the last company on our planet for Technical employees. They are far from reality when it comes to technology. Do not go by the x digit figure you see on paper. Bonus is big chunk of CTC, in-hand is less. You won't get bonus if you leave the company before yearly cycle. "Stay away from most plagued area in Shell, Downstream Retail." And specifically FPS Team - Fuels Pricing Team. HR's are typical service mentality people listens to managers. No brain, no questioning ability. Most importantly, If you want to destroy your career please join Shell. You are good decision makers, please see rest of the reviews and then decide your career. Few colleagues are typical characters, without knowledge of anything, Strictly ZERO knowledge of anything. Wasted my career here.

1.0
Jan 8, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Brand name due to which many were trapped including me which they will regret with in 3 months Heaven for lazy and non working people. Perfect company for people who know have zero knowledge but can talk talk and talk. Anybody who rejected in other companies due to lack of knowledge , people who are fired in other companies due to non performance but can talk are welcome with Red carpet

Cons

1) No value to your previous experience qualifications or knowledge, only criteria for selection is communication skills. 2)People with 5 yrs experience and 11 years experience is at same level and earning same salary. 3) HR team does not even what is the meaning of human resource/relations. They behave like God ,even CEO of company is more approachable than HR (The worst and dumbest HR team you can find among big corporates in India) . Their only job is to come time pass and go home. 4) Any college Pass out fresher can do the job as nature of job is very basic and no prior knowledge or experience is required to perform those kind of job . 5) Promotion is biggest joke and you have to wait for 4 yrs (that too based on role availability) and main criteria for promotion is not you work delivered but purely on number of contacts you made with in shell , so if you constantly hang out with senior leaders/whites and show fake smile they spot a future leader in you on expense of other talented people. 6) You will see many people who were fired from last company due to non performance being rock stars here 7) The only tech company in India which hire Developers based on their communication skills and not based on the ability to code . I have seen some no brain developers being hired but extremely talented developers not selected because they were poor in story telling ( can you believe that) 8) You just have to talk (even if you dont know ABCD of that subject also) then Americans/Europeans recognize you as leader

1.0
Dec 11, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

-Branding -Renumeration -Safety practices part of HSSE -Facility and set-up

Cons

-IT leadership are unaware on how to lead delivery -Biased approach to Indians -Discriminating Indians as slave force -Unrealistic work culture when it comes to Indians -Be prepared to take midnight calls and loose your sleep. Mandatory US work timings since 70% of most projects are delivered from USA -No long term international assignments(loose your sleep and deliver from India) -Huge projects have pressurized work environment -No work-life Balance -Not the pay master as assumed, attrition rate points its finger -HR policies are HR friendly, made by HR's for HR's -Pay structure offers No tax benefits to employees -Policies and practices are now localized by Indian Managers and HR's hence global best practices are no more practiced in Shell India markets private Ltd The list goes on, as 2.5 years in this organization has brought to light how the organisation now works. Be prepared to see discrimination by peers outside India. It started well and all is not going well hence Attrition has increased.

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