Used to be good, but more recently became an appalling disaster
Pros
Used to be a good place to work.
Cons
Quality of work: Typically, you will spend about 5% of your time on things you hired to do. The rest of the time, you are picking up for others and fixing system errors / other people’s errors. Environment: Area offices and plant sites have a different vibe than the two major corporate offices. Some plant offices had a positive environment, however, other plant sites had toxic and hostile work environments. Culture: Good ol’ boy culture. No diversity here, meaning only one type of personality will succeed and remain – the one that spends 60 hours at work, snitches, talks out of both sides of their mouths, and does not have a life outside their work. If you respect yourself or the truth, stay away! Work – Life Balance: Expect to be driving significant distances. Expect to work 1.5 FTE’s at minimum. They run incredibly lean and more so since the downsizing in 2020. IT infrastructure and I&E systems: Below par support for systems, especially in the older areas that have antiquated software and systems in place. Most systems including VPN were incredibly slow. IT just throws their hands up and tosses issues back to the area support that is incapable of understanding the need for modern up-to-date technology and access. Some of the older areas had bad instrumentation and I&E area groups would have 1 guy that was knowledgeable but he's stretched so thin, he did not have time to fix all the broken devices. I&E was struggling. Resourcing: Used to be fine, but they're now of the opinion, that they can cut costs and pay fewer people and stretch them thin. They have lost expertise over the years and do not understand basic things about how humans work and specialize in certain tasks and areas. Now, they have one person servicing large states (traveling long distances) and doing so many tasks, in so many systems, at the end of the day, this person becomes a generalist having a depth of about 2 inches with no quality opinions to offer. Management: Some area managers are incredibly hostile and have an inferiority complex, and have come up with a strategy that they have to complain constantly to get others’ respect?!! VP of Eng is foul-mouthed. Proves the point that if you are a snitch and can cuss in every other sentence, you will do well at Targa. Middle management seems to be good at their technical side, but under-trained in managerial skills and often caught off-guard and were an embarrassment. Management was pushing multiple system improvements at the same time and you were always shuffling between trainings. It was poorly planned. They had no working knowledge of the basic iron triangles in getting things to work and succeed. It was appalling. HR: Minimal exposure to HR. One request took close to 5 months to fulfil that should have only taken a week. Do not know if they were under resourced or incompetent. Admin: Under trained and under experienced, and possibly under resourced. Very few had a good understanding of the invoicing system. Invoicing system was a disaster when first implemented.
