4.0
28 Jan 2015
Former employee, more than 3 years
London, England
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
BP Trading Organisation (IST) was decent and entrepreneurial. Good benefits and work/life balance. Strong emphasis on regulatory compliance / CSR / diversity aspects. I had a sense of decency about senior management, even while the company was going through a period of tremendous stress following the tragic Deepwater Horizon event in the Gulf of Mexico.
Cons
Massive scale of the trading operations (multiple major trading floors around the world) gave me a sense that the company was hard to manage and led to inefficiencies and inconsistencies in some areas. I also felt that the company was somewhat slow to tackle under-performing staff in some cases.