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> I worked for a few years at Shell though and now I'm wary of ever working for a large corporation again I didn't find them that bad tbh, I think that there's
by growlist 7y ago
> I worked for a few years at Shell though and now I'm wary of ever working for a large corporation again
I didn't find them that bad tbh, I think that there's good parts and bad parts in all monsters like Shell - my take was that their size, heritage and criticality to the global economy has resulted in them developing certain bureaucratic traits akin to a governmental civil service, but even with that said they do some amazing stuff (which most civil services cannot get anywhere near) - and I worked with probably the smartest IT pros I've met in my career. They operate a massive global IT infrastructure at scale and they do it pretty well, with some aspects being indisputably world-leading.
- asdfman123 7y agoOh yeah, definitely. Shell is not a office but a zillion offices spread throughout the globe. Probably my main problem was I worked for the data management department where the most experienced people were semi-technical and had geoscience backgrounds. Intelligent people, but internal software tools were still very new to them and many were still doing things they did in the 80s.
- growlist 7y agoOne of my favourite Shell memories is when Outlook malfunctioned and sent an email to thousands of people in error, many of whom then also replied saying 'me too' to an initial reply-all email that said 'I got this email in error'. It happened several times until the CIO was forced to send a company wide email saying 'Please don't reply all when you receive an email in error, it takes several days processing for Outlook to catch up'.