Thanks for your input. To be honest, I am not interested in how they benchmark against job group. If they cannot afford, the least they could do is to tell me at the start instead of wasting my time to go through so many interviews and end up with a offer that is monthly pay cut and more or less equal in total package. I expect better for a MNC.

As for culture, the most concern for me is many people here mention there is a lot of wayang and meeting and not doing work. My own character is very direct regardless of rank and just say what I think is right and head down to do work asap and move on to next issue. I tell my reports not to call for meetings unless they have something critical and my own boss never call for meeting except for a regular monthly.

In your experience, is Shell like that?