Chinese state owned oil & gas company that bought over Singapore Petroleum Company
Pros
You get to work in an office with panoramic views overlooking the Singapore flyer area. Suntec shopping mall is nearby, serving all your shopping and grocery needs. Decent benefits like free medical health screening for all employees yearly and interest free car loans for managers. Bonus payouts are good too, on top of 14 months fixed salaries but aren't benchmarked to other oil trading companies.
Cons
Being a chinese stated owned company, you have to conform to the chinese style of management which isn't bad as people are generally harmonious but it can be hard to change things or ways of working. Things are slowly changing ever since PetroChina bought over SPC. People are not engaged and turnover has recently increased by a lot but it does not seem that Management or HR is doing anything about it. In fact HR seems to be the problem with the way they handle things, focusing on silly little things instead of bigger issues. Be careful when HR comes knocking or calls you in for a “coffee chat”. Attendance and lunch hours are to be strictly adhered to, but you will see typical double standards. You know it is sad when even your Management is not able to convince HR on certain departmental issues like manpower or training. Proper training and development is also non existential , the company focuses on low level soft skills trainings which doesn't add value to most employees. Career progression takes forever as well.
