Repsol reviews about "manager"

Most of managers and employees are from Spain or Spanish-speaking countries, so Spanish is the office language in U.S. As an lowest level worker, from time to time, you are most likely asked to do your chore overtime, prepare some beautiful slides, and baby-sit your boss with the slides. Your boss then dresses up and presents the slides to the top managers. Good for you, you don't need to learn Spanish or buy a new suit because you are never invited, just go back your cubic waiting for answering questions for your boss in real-time remotely

- The training and development is not very organized. Very few classes are organized in the Houston office, most are in Madrid which makes no financial sense considering we are in Houston where most training companies have their classrooms, therefore most employees don't get much training. -Pay is not competitive with other E&P companies. - No career development. - Locals get a lot fewer vacation days than expats. - Managers/team leaders who seem to be dissatisfied with their job. - 80% of the conversations around me on a daily basis are in Spanish-- so much for transparency (one of Repsol's values) - Practically zero guidance . A new employee can only do so much on their own. Many interns complain about sitting around all summer with nothing to do. - The Madrid office doesnt seem to trust the Houston office and is always making decisions despite being thousands of miles away. - Safety is overlooked and inadequate, both in the office and field. We moved into a new building over a year ago and my floor has still never had a real fire drill. In the field, managers did not wear proper PPEs. Leading by example isnt something they care about. - Preferential treatment to Ex-patriots. - Organization in this company is lacking. Decisions are made and released and 2 months later changed. -The company never seems to learn from their mistakes. -Little feedback on how to improve. - Cafe food is overpriced - It feels like people are always trying to have the upper-hand on information so they don't share information at all or a few weeks after they get the original data. I personally dont understand being competitive within the same team. Let's work together so we can all get ahead. - While budget cuts are happening all around us in the US it seems like people in Madrid are doing more training and traveling to more places. In other countries they are relocating the offices due to financial reasons, but in Madrid they just made the decision to turn off the lights at night. Everyone should be making budget cuts at the same time.

-Training and Development is terrible. Quality of classes is poor and external training takes forever to get approval if at all. - Pay and vacation for young people is not competitive with other E&P companies. - Terrible managers who sit back and collect giant pay checks. - Low quality leadership. They have said decreasing workplace negativity is a goal and then we have 2 days of layoffs in one week. - Zero guidance until a deadline is approaching and then suddenly management cares about your work. - Everything happens last minute here. - Few qualified senior technical people to offer advice and help to young people - Safety is seen as a joke. People laugh about reckless driving in the parking garage. - Staff organization makes no sense. - No one feels appreciated. - Spanish culture dominates and it isn't a good one. - No communication between different groups - Management doesn't communicate to their teams - When oil goes up people are going to leave here so fast!

--absolutely no career development/progression (for non-Spaniards that is) --only 1 non-Spanish director (in the US office) creates environment for extremely preferential treatment --salary is well below industry average when comparing similar positions and experience levels --cost of living salary increase has been less than inflation last 2 years (I am technically making less money today than 2 years ago!) --Talisman acquisition/transition will be a nightmare-->Madrid will jump right in and start micromanaging by placing new Spaniard bosses in formerly US/Canadian teams --most inefficient IT system ever imagined-->need a cable for your monitor? well then you need to email Madrid --yearly bonus is determined by closed door popularity contest (stay a couple years and it's impossible to not notice) --nearly all new hires in management/upper level positions are Spaniard --pretending to be dumb and "brown-nosing" are highly encouraged here --favoritism is rampant in the office --if you do not speak Spanish, prepare to not understand half of the conversations going on in the office (in the USA!) --managers do not know employees salaries, only HR and directors. this makes it impossible to negotiate a raise when the person you are talking to barely even knows your name. --managers/team leaders (most, NOT all) are very condescending, really kills office creativity and idea sharing

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- The Madrid management makes decisions at a glacial pace. - The merger of Talisman Energy is taking years. - Almost two years into the merger and there is still confusion about the org chart. - Legacy Talisman Energy talent has been left with nothing to do while Madrid teams are swamped with work.