Chevron FAQ

Pros

Good corporate culture, benefits package

Cons

Multiple reorg during last few years

Pros

Felt welcome from day one. Very diverse group

Cons

Only get free lunch once a week 🤪

Pros

The benefits and pay are competitive. Makes it easier to ignore the downsides and hard to walk away

Cons

Lack of flexibility and adaptability. I needed remote work for a short term domestic relocation to keep our family together due to my partner's job. Even after 2+ years remote, Chevron would not allow me to work remote. I was forced to take an unpaid leave of absence or quit.

Advice to Management

Understand flexibility and enable your people

Pros

Chevron is a wonderful company that promotes diversity and inclusion (D&I), trust and integrity, worklife balance and aims to reduce carbon footprint. Good culture and values, reasonable compensations and good benefits (medical & dental).

Cons

But certain business unit does not practice what the company preaches on D&I, worklife balance - it depends on the one leading the team. Certain Supervisor micromanages the team. Not much of internal career opportunities though, disappointed

Pros

work life balance, pay, pension, flex time, 9/80s

Cons

poor career development, politics, un-interested middle management

Advice to Management

The re-org & transformation towards an Agile org was a strong vision from the CEO Mike Wirth, that was meant to make Chevron competitive in the challenging future for the Oil & Gas industry. However, it was poorly executed as it was nothing but a numbers game for the CIO Bill Braun & his Leadership Team. 1. New job positions were published with generic copy n paste Job Descriptions & Selection Criteria, i.e. 100s of jobs that were completely different had the same JD & SC 2. Many of the positions were filled with complete unqualified people who did not remotely met the JD or SC, i.e. Project Managers landed in Architect roles, Architects landed in Financial roles, Financial Analysts landed in IT Developer roles 3. The selection was mostly based on who you new, not what you knew. Many talented people, who did not play politics, were released and the resulting new org was left with less than talented people who did not have a clue as to what was required in their new positions 4. CIO Bill Braun has poor command of the org and is disconnected with ground reality 5. From an IT perspective, not a very challenging environment, lack of growth and development