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How about the 2 completions people that were fired last week
If you aren't in the toxic cliques and you buck them you will stick out. Make sure you stroke their egos and keep yourself below their radar. Work quality is sub par and accepted as leading or cutting edge.
Your skills will dull out here. Over the last couple of years there has been a mass exodus of people who are the real high potential top talents. We have a hand full of great hold overs who have gone unprompted and overlooked because of nepotism and arrogance.
This place is very unhealthy.
bp hates us, which doesn’t help.
I have been at BPX for 7 years and on average it has been a good (C to C-) experience, some great times and some terrible times. The current leadership team seems like it is gaining its balance but there is a real lack of honest connection and communication to the staff. In the era of DL the leadership team were all very approachable and present. You certainly debate if they were effective or just lucky, but this new team is known by many to be uncomfortably unapproachable and very cliquish. The amount of consultants and contractors both in the field and in the BPX corporate offices is a huge communication and morale issue. Work product delivery and quality is below average at best and unacceptable much of the time, but we pay a premium for it all the time. Some openly say that if you don’t want to be held accountable for anything at BPX, be a consultant or a contractor. Another recent and significant negative activity is the non-stop movement in the senior and midlevel management space. It is common knowledge that there are real and deep personality issues at the LT and mid-management levels at bpx. Working in that level would be 50/50 chance at career su----e. This creates significant downward presure, confusion, inefficiency and stress, and it’s non-stop. In the past this didn’t seem to be as deep of an issue as it is now. It has turned into a very cut throat atmosphere where trust and teamwork have all but vanished. BPX overall is a good place to work if you have thick skin, don’t mind 60+ hr work weeks, can stay out of the path of LT members and managers who have no problem settling vendettas or rewarding their friends.
From the people I've met in my last few years, it really depends on your group and manager. I'm in the technology space, and it's definitely love/hate around here. For me, it's easily a net positive (I know, I know, then what the heck am I doing here?) and it seems like most of our lower-level leadership have a really good sense of hitting inter-team conflicts/concerns head-on so we can move forward.
All this to the point that there are people who clearly disagree, and they stick out. They don't think they do, but they do.