Chevron reviews

Since Chevron is an international company, they put a very strong emphasis on being "globally mobile". You have to be willing to follow their "suggestions" about when and where to move in order to stay on "The List" and continue to be quickly promoted. With the energy industry so focused in Houston and a spouse that works for another energy company, we were not mobile. I made the hard decision to leave Chevron because I knew that my career would stall when I refused to move. I can now stay in Houston doing the work I truly enjoy with another company while getting higher pay and no pressure to relocate. Also, although Chevron has improved in recognizing the importance of technical expertise, they still put much more value and emphasis on people who want to pursue a career in management versus a technical career.

After the layoffs last year, the culture totally stinks. Lack of role clarity is rampant and a culture of overwork pervades the company now. The return to 4 days in the office is an absolute joke because people have long commutes in the horrible Houston traffic just to attend a bunch of meetings on microsoft teams. On top of that, there are many meetings with overseas coworkers at both ends of the day and there is no way that "in-person collaboration" can happen with those people by spending an hour in traffic commuting to the office. The way things are going right now, many will quit from burnout, which is probably the intention since they seem to want people to leave so that they can replace US based employees with those in India, Argentina, and the Phillipines.