Lots of positives for cons you have to live with - Anonymous employee Chevron Employee Review

4.0
21 Mar 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- great 401k matching and pension program - work/life balance is encouraged with the 9/80 schedule (every other Friday is off) - ability to move around the company if geographically mobile - good ethics policies

Cons

- long-term incentives makes you have to stay an employee for a long-time to get stock options - top heavy, hard to move up as people tend to stay for their entire careers - slow at decision making and technology adoption - work/life balance depends on the group and your manager - people management gets political - if you get stuck with a bad manager, it is really difficult - failure is not encouraged so innovation is stagnant in my department

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
26 June 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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