- Everyone is leaving to CIP/Macquarie/competitors for a reason. This is not really a performance culture.
-Mainly promote people who excel at perception management, and whose face fits. You'll notice Danish managers making sure the Danes are taken care of. In London, the office is super cliquey - if you're on the 'in' or social friends with your boss you'll do fine. No correlation between output and prospects.
- Regular/annual reorgs to make sure a small number of the circa 50 at the top of Offshore are well taken care of, and that chairs are shuffled as to obscure underperformance/missed KPIs.
- Pays significantly below market, and bonuses (if you get them) are laughable. As a consequence an above average number of managers come from wealthy backgrounds/have wealthy spouses that enable them to work for 50%-70% of a fair market salary at Orsted. This is really an equality issue.
- Ultimately, a wonderful place if you have a busy home life with young kids and need 8 hours to relax each day in the office, have some cake, free lunch and a coffee with colleagues. If you're good at playing politics and/or happen to be a Dane, you'll likely even get promoted or be given some plum expat postings.
- If on the other hand you really care about performance, execution, meeting your targets, you're best off at CIP or somewhere that pays for performance and therefore expects it.
