Have you been to the airport on a busy day and seen how inefficent the TSA is? You should take that experience and times it by 3 to get a better understanding of the competencies of the Spaniards; which in lamens terms: lazy, clueless, scared of making decisions, no transparency or communication, no regard for others (especially non spaniards). Complete comedy and utterly unbelievable that a Company can be so poorly run and managed, especially for one who touts themseleves as a leader, an international company, pioneer, ect.. I could go the bus station and randomly pick up 5 people who would work harder than anything I have experienced at Repsol and I have worked for Major International Oil Companies. This what be a great Harvard Business Review case study on failure of management, failed leadership and the resulting loss of value.
As other reviews have stated, Spain has Union Agreements, and as such, they cannot rid themselves of people easily so what you have is a bunch of lazy bad news bears who have job security and they want to protect those jobs so the non spaniards have very little if all upward mobility at the Company. For a company of 18,000 employees, ONLY a handful and when I say handful, I can count them, are non Spaniard at a Director level, so trickle down and you have same percentages for managers, ect. Training – No, Raises – No, CPE Paid for- No, how can you be successful? How can you do your job when they send policies in Spanish? They send people over for meetings and they are completley unprepared and do nothing for a week. They have Expats in Jobs in which they have no experience in, zero, the list goes on, it is pure comedy, stupidity and goes against the very essence of basic common sense. Additonally, due to lack of experience and knowledge of the North American upstream business, they bought assets at the height of the market for grossly inflated values: MidContinent – Sandridge (Bankrupt), Alaska – Couldn’t meet the $1 Billion carry (had to give a large portion of the the working interest back), Talisman (near bankrupt, broken company) caused them severe financial stress from low quality asset base, Canaport: Billion + dollar LNG bet was wrong. You get the point? Save yourself the hassle and stress of working for the place, drive for uber until you can get something else. Ask yourself, when has Spain been a dominant international player, the correct answer is the 15th through 17th century, there is a reason why it is been 500+ years, the culture, knowledge and work ethic are why. When you search on the interent, “Spain, the Mexico of Europe” is quite fitting.
