Work culture has degraded significantly over time - Facitilies Engineer Chevron Employee Review

2.0
14 June 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Good compensation package with generous 401k match - Respectful and intelligent colleagues - Recognized company brand - Worldwide company with interesting assets throughout the globe. - 9/80 schedule with some hybrid (although hybrid schedule is slowly being eroded)

Cons

- Management has no vision. Continually reorganizing the company coupled with mass headcount reductions every few years. Always copying peers rather than leading. Frequent employee surveys are taken but actions are never congruent with the feedback. - Company culture and employee morale is severely degraded compared to 10 years ago. - HR is untrustworthy. Be sure to document all your discussions as they will make up the rules as they go. - Offshoring of professional jobs to India has begun to reduce cost (and copy peers). This will limit opportunities for US professionals.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

The paycheck still clears (for now, until your role is moved to Bangalore or Manila). ​The 9/80 schedule used to be a perk, but it’s hard to enjoy a Friday off when you spent the previous four days hunting for a desk like a game of musical chairs.

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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