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Occidental Petroleum

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Awesome group of engineers - MBA Student Occidental Petroleum Employee Review

4.0
17 Jan 2022
Recommend
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Pros

I freakin' loved working with fellow nerds. I visited the office after having left over a year ago for business school and stumbled into a conversation between two geologists geeking out about outcrops and rock formations and it made me realize how much I miss working with all the brilliant engineers and geologists at this company. World-class people.

Cons

While I was there, a big challenge was how to develop new talent. They created a program that aimed to better train recent graduates; I'm not sure how that program worked out, but it seemed like a great opportunity to learn.

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5.0
9 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great culture and environment. Work life balance is great.

Cons

The Pay could be better.

1.0
4 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay and good bonuses. Nothing else worth mentioning of any positive value.

Cons

At Carlsbad, NM operations 98% of professionally credentialed management and supervision have quit or been fired. The remaining management and supervision hold at best a high school diploma, and half of these people are functional alcoholics. Exceptionally poor design and execution of facilities with multiple facilities burned to the ground each quarter. Additionally, there is zero training and zero development for employees. If you're expecting quality employment with professionals this isn't the company, look elsewhere. Generally speaking OXY management, supervision, and employees hold exceptional poor ethics and morals with non-stop lying from employees, refusal to participate, and supervision lacking base knowledge. Since they've hired 99% uneducated and unskilled individuals the company culture has taken a nose dive for the worse, with expectation of several hundred additional employees quitting. Each year about half the operations group employees quit, it's literally a revolving door.

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