Avantages
- Location (Nice new building at the Woodlands). - Good 401K match. -Work-life balance.
Inconvénients
Everything else. Some highlights: - VERY limited number of attractive projects. -Terrible pay, particularly for young professionals. “Revamped” salaries this year for young prof, nothing for seniors. Took more than 8 years to give anything you could call a raise. Still below market and not competitive. Most importantly, it took A LOT of people leaving for this to happen. Many are waiting to see what happens next year to see if their Repsol experience will come to an end. I wouldn’t be surprised if it goes back to the 0-2% salary increases that we had for the past 8 years…. - Repsol US works under the Spanish model. They believe that they are doing you a favor by keeping you in the company, because, you know, there are no more oil companies in Houston….. With the market picking up, I predict they will lose a lot more people this year. -Nonexistent Career Development. Hyped up a CD plan last year, nothing has nor will come out of it. - Preferential treatment for the following, in order: Spaniards, legacy Talisman, Spanish speakers and/or brown nosers (the call it "visibility"). Long story short, nepotism is rampant. You MUST know somebody to get anywhere. - NO REGARDS FOR GOOD WORK. You can be the best employee, doesn't matter to them. We are all the same, unless you know somebody. Hard to stay motivated when you see hard workers stay at the same level and the most incompetent people make it to the top (see advice to management on comment from 01/24/2018, this is the worst case but there are MANY others). - Most will leave the company when given a chance, for lower pay or no job at all. Everybody hates it here. Repsol knows but doesn’t care, it is strange. Especially now that the job market is picking up. - P&O (HR) controls everything even though they know little about what we do. If you confront them, they’ll just blame whoever is above them. Managers/leads/directors have little to no power. P&O only cares about the bottom line and not the employees. I could keep going, this is very therapeutic, but I digress.