Avoid joining or you will regret it - Anonymous employee Castrol Employee Review

Everything else: - Incompetent leadership with a “killer” mentality. The current Castrol CEO has sacked her whole team in less than 2 years since she joined. The word from the ground is that “she doesn’t really know what she is doing” - Toxic Culture, which is a ticking bomb. It doesn't matter how good your products are or how clever your strategy is, if the culture is toxic it will blow everything up eventually - Most middle managers care about how to be “obedient” to the leadership rather than performing any meaningful work. Constructive disagreement and challenges are not advised if someone wants to keep their job. - Reorganisations take place every 2 to 3 years, essentially going in circles: undoing what the previous reorg did and going back to what the previous previous reorg had done. The driver is always cutting down on headcounts and reducing costs, rather than capability retention and establishing more efficient ways of working. - Lack in talented and smart people: the majority of employees who have survived the consecutive reorgs are unskilled impostors, who have made a career by leeching on others. - Lack in career progression: roles are becoming fewer and are relocated to low cost countries. Leadership doesn’t trust their own people and are always looking to hire parachuters from outside - hiring from FMCG is the latest fad. - No job rotation: if you are branded as a Marketing person, that’s what you are going to do forever. It’s almost impossible to switch -for example- to Sales, in order to grow professionally, enrich your skillset and help the company to achieve growth. The term “transferable skills” does not exist in the hiring managers’ vocabulary. - HR is not there to protect employees’ rights, to provide support and guidance, but rather they act as watchdogs for the leadership. I could go on, but I think you get the idea. Join at your own risk!