Exciting but toxic. - Anonymous employee Shell Employee Review

Managers are mostly incompetent, unintelligent, and self serving, with no EQ whatsoever, and zero ability (or wilful ignorance/negligence) to predict the future, insofar as the effects of their choices and decisions are concerned, mostly focusing on myopic initiatives that make them look good to higher management, at the cost of their direct reports. Thus resulting in high attrition rates and burnouts. Nepotism and brown nosing are rampant, further fueling the proliferation of such managers. Career/growth opportunities (in a direction different from what management plans out for you behind closed doors) are virtually non-existent, unless aforementioned managers deem it necessary/appropriate, which is mostly not the case, since they need to ensure continuity of the workforce. The marginal succes of this organization can be attributed to young, ambitious graduates lured in with fanciful promises, with no idea of the environment that awaits them, and talented and hard working but jaded/disillusioned operators/mechanics. The Venus Flytrap of employers, in essence.