-Beware if you've experienced research and analysis elsewhere: this is industrialised data production. Data scraping from websites, data entry/cut and paste into standardised "models" (it's not modelling) for DCF valuation by systems (not you) and data "management" (herding it through legacy bolted together systems and conducting infinite data checks). You're a stand-in for a decent IT system. Some industry analysis possible but it's a minority of the time, squeezed between the attritional data stuff, and little actually going on to analyse by the team's own admission. The data churn doesn't give you the knowledge to do the stuff that looks more like analysis and you're not readily helped with getting it. Very disappointing.
-Focus on box ticking (quantity and timing) and what looks good on managers' KPIs.
-Introduced agile working methods relatively recently. Absolute waste of time and surprising given claimed culture aims: actually endangers it as it reinforces sense of general micro-management, lack of trust/empowerment and sweating the staff. Where I come from, it's a manger's job to know what work is going on in the team and trust staff to do it or say when they can't.
-More chiefs than indians. Seems vastly bureaucratic. It seems people who don't leave eventually get promoted to some new "head of" job.
-People mostly nice and there a long time - usually a good thing but perhaps creates a sense of survivorship bias, institutionalisation, complacency and need for fresh blood. Manifests itself in different ways. Strange assumption of knowledge everywhere: you should know what they know even after only months in the door. No holistic training of any note, just transactional. Thrown into the churn and then have work pulled apart afterwards, which is fundamentally backward.
-Poor pay. Previous roles paid 55-80% more. I accepted it for the opportunity to get into oil and gas analysis, but it was nowhere near that and pay reflects the job's admin orientation. Also always trying to penny pinch. The only place I've had to pay for my welcome lunch. Small but sets the tone. Welcome indeed.
-Poor systems. Being addressed to be fair but still large uncertainties re roles. You can see this company being far less labour intensive in future the way tech is going. It could be disrupted beyond all recognition before long and oil and gas faces its own challenges.
-Lot of change going on which you'd hope is for the long term good but it feels frantic/chaotic. It's not clear they really know where this is going for careers.
-Fair amount of staff turnover - surprise, surprise. Turnover leaves clear knowledge gaps in teams which may also be behind new-entrant training issues.
