Sinopec Reviews

Job is not difficult, but people will make it difficult for you here. You will need to fight to get your points across. People are very rude, they talk very loudly and rudely. "buck passing' is prevalent and get rewarded by the Management as well! Very shocking culture to local employees. Management has no intention to promote local staffs much, most management are expatriates from China. Local staffs here are second graded. Bad behaviors will be rewarded or encouraged. The louder wins. Toxic working culture, local employees whom used to be nice after joining for awhile will turn nasty like them. Expatriates they sent here to manage do not always have the relevant working experience. For instance, they may get some non professional staffs from HQ to lead the professional team here.

Sinopec suffers from a lack of future direction and poor upper management decisions. Mostly, Sinopec is a "top heavy" organization with a lot of VP's and not so many people to actually do the work. The is a symptom of being owned by a Chinese international corporation which handcuffs the management's ability to make decisions. All decisions, big or small, need to filter to Head Office in Beijing. Head office has a lack of oil and gas experience and therefore detailed information and endless justification is required. The working atmosphere is very frustrating and the political game players have taken over the corporate culture.