Great pay, lousy schedule, typical big corporation SNAFU - Refinery Operator Chevron Employee Review

4.0
Jul 20, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you can get in, the pay is well above average for similar industrial operator jobs. Excellent benefits package, too.

Cons

As with everything when the company gets too big, the corporate hive mind takes over and the bean counters making 7+ figures sacrifice quality for a couple of pennies of profit, and then blame the underlings when things go wrong. Also, the shift rotation schedule is rather difficult to adapt to at first. There are better schedules out there, but it's up to the employees to accept change, which they don't seem to want to do.

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5.0
Jun 19, 2026
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Pros

great pay, decent schedule, work is overall rewarding

Cons

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4.0
Jun 26, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people at Chevron are great and overall it's a pretty good company - decent benefits and company culture. The 9/80 work schedule is a great perk. It has struggled to stay competitive with other big employers in California though.

Cons

Leadership has become increasingly out of touch, with regular re-organizations, lay-offs, and offshoring of support/operation functions disrupting day-to-day work and making processes even more slow and bureaucratic. Overall most employees are still wonderful to work with, but the constant leadership mantra of "do more with less" and removal of flexible/hybrid work has definitely reduced morale and made Chevron just another job, whereas it used to be a genuinely enjoyable place to work.

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