All around great company - Anonymous employee Chevron Employee Review

4.0
Dec 13, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Very professional and friendly work atmosphere; great people to work with. - Casual dress at field locations. - Great benefits and perks (too many to list them all). Flexible schedules, most facilities have onsite gym, massage, advanced egonomic equipment, cafeteria's / catering, etc. - Focus on diversity, safety, protecting the environment and community engagement. - Supportive managers that really care about employees and help to develop their careers. - Training programs internal and external. Also potential for compensation of higher education.

Cons

- A lot of variation in the physical office environments. Some nice innovations with green / leed certified buildings but overall tends to be traditional and bland. - Some of the HR rules and practices that prevent pay and promotion from being aligned with actual contribution and proven performance. - Its a big company so much of one's experience may depend on work group. - Opportunities may be limitied for those that aren't PetroTech's, don't have a degree or are not highly mobile.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

The RTO Charade: Leadership loves to talk about "collaboration," but the 4-day Return to Office (RTO) is clearly a quiet layoff tactic. They want people to quit so they don’t have to pay severance. The "Invisible" Office: It’s impressive how Mike Wirth can demand everyone be in the building while simultaneously removing the basic infrastructure of a workplace. No assigned desks, no storage, and literally no trash cans. Apparently, "Human Energy" includes carrying your own garbage home and spending 30 minutes every morning wandering the floor looking for a monitor that actually works. Leadership Vacuum: Les Copland is the definition of a CIO "yes man." Instead of standing up for the integrity of the tech stack or the US workforce, he’s overseen the systematic gutting of IT. It’s a race to the bottom to find the cheapest labor possible outside of the US, leaving the remaining domestic staff to clean up the inevitable mess. The War on American Workers: There is a blatant, aggressive push to minimize the American footprint. We are being phased out in favor of massive outsourcing hubs. You aren't a valued engineer here; you’re an overhead cost that Mike Wirth is looking to delete.

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