I have been at BPX for a few years and have already seen so many large scale changes that it’s mind blowing. From several new SOPs (things that technically should have been in place a long time ago), spreadsheets that track data that is either redundant or unused, OKRs, and most recently lattice. It seems as if BPX has zero direction and an identity crisis. When I first started I was aware there was a revolving door, but with the WFH weeks and other benefits I was confused why that was the case. Unfortunately I get it now. It doesn’t help that middle management is so poor that they can’t properly convey how direct reports feel to upper management, but I guess let’s keep filling out surveys to see what they think we want next that will make us “happy”.
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I did not come from Bp to Bpx but I came from private equity. Private equity is high intensity and fast paced. You work hard there. Some of the comments about Bp'ers not wanting to work is nonsense. I've been at Bpx for a couple of years now and I hate it. Middle management is young, immature, arrogant, and very hard to tolerate. I know several Bp'ers who work very hard like myself.
I'm leaving first chance I get. I've got several interviews lined up.
Not a legacy BP person but I worked for BPX and its pretty appalling and awful. The middle management and LT are toxic and the company culture is garbage. Favoritism and nepotism run rampant. Stear clear of thus place. They are not a good place to hang your hat. The arrogance is pretty bad too.
The only “woeful” thing at bpx is the smell of stale, moldy, entitled bp mindset “that’s not how we do it here”, “if bp does it, that’s the way it should be done”. Haaa bullsnot….bp has a long history of how not to do things..congratulations group id--ts. The new bpx leadership team is the best we have ever had and if bp would just let them do it they will make US ALL profitable and keep US ALL off of the front page of the newspaper. But you old dogs won’t let that happen will you….of course not. You need something or someone to bi--h about and if you can’t make it work (you’ve proven that..) you won’t let anyone else do it either.
BPX isn’t ’agile’ at anything! It’s just plain mediocre. Bp proper should take it over and clear out the current middle management as they are woeful
Then the both of you should leave. I am in the group that you identify and I couldn’t be happier. Yes there are programs and processes that are just beginning, some established processes that are changing and even some in both categories that are being eliminated, but thats to be expected in an agile company. The most negatively impactful and business hindering issue at bpx are the people, mostly legacy bp who expected to sit on their hands and get paid like they did a bp. Do all of us at bpx who like to work a favor, stop complaining, stop being malingerers and lets get to work, or better yet, leave.
Over 20yrs experience, only a couple here at bpx, and I couldn't agree more with the middle management comment. And how in the he-l are there so many 5-10yr "Senior" titled people? I ran into a 26yo Senior Engineer in a meeting recently. It's not their fault, but it's bpx's.