Definitely do not recommend, especially if you want to learn, grow or develop your career in software and data. Equinor doesn't have internal expertise in those areas, it just outsources everything to consultants who do what they want how they want it. Most of them are inexperienced, sloppy, don't know or follow best practices, and on top of that are arrogant and blatantly disrespect employees. The managers and "leaders" know about it and don't do anything. In fact, they don't really know what to do, because they usually don't have experience in software either. As an employee, you are left in a position where your work is blocked by consultants, and there's not a lot of good people to learn from.
Team spirit is inexistent, management scrambles with poor decisions, there's no encouragement to good ideas or innovation, and your mental health suffers.
Foy years, Equinor has benefited from the fact that it had so much money to spend that it was ok to be inefficient. This just created bad habits. Now there is cost cutting, and the company does not know how to handle it. Recently, they keep repeating the Norwegian shelf is mature, the returns are diminishing and costs are growing. A program was launched publicly to try to at least keep production at the same level until 2035, but not sure if they can achieve even that with the gaps in competence and efficiency. And what hapens after 2035? Future-wise, this is just a bad bet.
Besides that, compared to any tech company, the pay and benefits are pretty bad, and the culture is dinosauric. If you have any data or software skills, you are much better pretty much anywhere else in Norway, both financially and in terms of your learning and mental health. If you're young, that advice is doubled - don't waste your career capital!
