Returned to former employer. Experienced hires beware. - Anonymous employee Chevron Employee Review

1.0
8 June 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Competitive, but not superior pay and benefits -Offers similar benefits to peer companies (980 schedule, pension, etc.) -Offers fitness centers similar to peer companies -I worked in Downstream. Most of the reviews on Glassdoor are Upstream. I would have liked to work Upstream but my transfers were blocked, even after I had met my time commitments.

Cons

-Experienced hires are used to fill positions vacated by their high potential employees. Do not expect to move up if you did not begin your career with Chevron. -Bullying by managers is encouraged and rewarded. Management is encouraged to motivate by fear rather than reward and recognition. -The Performance Management Process is not followed. Employee rankings are conducted before the Performance Management Form is filled out and discussed with your supervisor. -Blame is encouraged rather than find the root cause of an incident. -Working off-Fridays, weekends, and holidays was the norm more than the exception. This was expected rather than rewarded. -There are safety issues at the refineries that have been overlooked for years. The management is not committed to bring in additional resources to resolve the issues. -I returned to my former employer and immediately saw a HUGE difference between companies. There is no doubt in my mind that this was an unsafe and hostile work environment. I would not work for this company again.

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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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