Pros
-You get a paycheck -9-80 schedule
Cons
1) Cheapo company. Employees are severely underpaid. April 2020 raises based on 2019 performance were frozen due to covid. April 2021 raises for 2020 performance frozen due to covid again (by then oil had recovered). Finally, April 2022 with $120 oil, you would expect the company would make up for over 2 years of no raises. But nope, 2-3% raises only. Despite the inflation, despite no raises for 2020 and 2021, and despite the $120 oil… Mass exodus in Houston office. People can’t keep working for the same wage as April 2019. 2) Favoritism/ preferential treatment: unless you are 1) Former Talisman employee or 2) Contractor or 3) manager, you will never be treated properly, paid properly, or promoted. Contractors are given more opportunities, proper pay with overtime rates, and are allowed to make decisions as opposed to the employee engineers (we are the assistants for the contractors). Unfortunately management enables such an environment. 3) overly complicated processes that don’t allow for flexibility or change in the processes. 4) external hires get competitive pay packages, meanwhile employees that have been at Repsol for years continue to struggle with low pay.
