How would you describe the management stile and corporate culture at Petrowell?
Petrowell has a very flat structure, giving people the freedom to express themselves without having too much of a dictatorial management stile, where the idea is to provide a platform to bring forth their own innovation and ideas. It’s a very good way to keep our engineers stimulated, and if we ever lose that stimulus, people will fly the coop. You don’t collect the group of individuals Petrowell has, and then put them on a steady path of drudgery. There needs to be refreshment and growth, and this is manifested in Petrowell’s low attrition rate. Having previously worked for much larger companies, is it a challenge reverting back to this much leaner structure? We don’t want to create Petrowell in the image of larger service companies. Many people don’t want to work in the larger companies, instead preferring a more informal atmosphere. Petrowell tries to be as flexible as possible, hires sharp people, and is flexible in incentivizing people in ways that big corporations can’t, with cer
