Chevron Reviews

Pros

work-life balance is inculcated in the culture

Cons

career ladders -- need to move to a diff unit for growth

Pros

Work life balance and benefits. Georgaphical location of the Global Headquarters is very beautiful, but comes with a price.

Cons

Internal politics are overwelming. "Who" you know is valued more than "what" you know. Performace and pay determination process is poorly orchestrated year after year. Majority of Senior HR Leaders do not have advanced HR degrees or HR degrees period. Too much analysis, very little results.

Advice to Senior Management

Re-evaluate value add of senior HR Leaders, pay attention to employee survey results and do something about the low ranked areas. Look internally at degrees of employees and prior-Chevron experience, utilize them and stop spending millions on consultants who were classmates of your current employees.

Pros

The salary & benefits package is very good.
"DP Days" (every other Friday off) is great (vacation policy is only OK).
There are some great people in this organization (but,sadly, too few of them in management positions).

Cons

Senior management either have no clue about how sour the mood within the company is, or they know and can't/won't do any thing about it.
There are too many silos in this operation, and little co-operation between them.
Management seems more concerned with pleasing their own bosses in HQ (California) than providing any real leadership locally (i.e. they manage up, not down).
There is little room for growth within this branch of Chevron, as there are very few senior positions and most are locked up by long-term employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Say "thank you" once in a while... once your employees realize there are other jobs out there, you're going to lose them. Demonstrate that you appreciate that they are choosing to work at Chevron.

Pros

Numerous opportunities for advancement in all areas of the company. Good Management. Support for career development, especially if you are a high potential employee.

Cons

Opporutnties to work abroad are available but the locations can be challenging for families. Long hours and heavy workload - but tempered by good job security.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to focus on employee development - it's effective. More encouragement for work/life balance in management would be good. Overall a great place to work with lots of opportunity. I am proud to be an employee.

Pros

Great work life balance
Great people to work with in the office
Challenging, exciting work
Good salary and opportunites for development

Cons

Does not pay as much as other independent oil companies
Very large company can be intimidating for some
Politics at work but that is at every company

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to keep pushing the company forward like you are, and keep up the good work of making this an enjoyable company to work for.

Pros

- Relatively competitive salary
- Decent bonus (but based too much on overall versus inidvidual success)
- Good employees to work with overall
- Variety of positions to experience (if one can get to them)
- Excellent company and corporate resources (which are unfortunately underutilized)
- Very safety conscious
- Solid, conservative organization financially (for Wall Street's liking)

Cons

- Managers rather than true effective leaders. Relatively competent leadership is stymied with overwork, stonewalling and broken promises by insecure managers above them
- Executives - financial versus sales/marketing backgrounds
- Extremely risk-averse
- Paralysis by extreme analysis - agonizingly slow in making decisions
- Too enamored with itself
- Extreme internal focus versus concentration on the marketplace
- Promote customer value with actions proving otherwise
- Good products, ineffective marketing

Advice to Senior Management

- Provided advice and feedback many times to management that continued to be ignored for over a decade

Pros

Chevron provides a livable wage, marketable skills and most importantly the ability to save for a decent retirement. There are many opportunities to grow and advance.

Cons

After sometime working in a union shop became limiting. If you don't know how to play the political game it can also be limiting. Observe and learn to over come it.

Advice to Senior Management

Everyone of your employee wants to be a part of the big picture. Mentor each of your employees. Find their individual talents and utilize it. You and they will see great things coming out of that simple idea.

Pros

tons of jobs to move around in

Cons

really difficult to move up

Pros

its pretty good . i like it ..n its very calm environment , its pretty chill, good pay, good benefit , flexible schedule

Cons

shitty pay, bad manegement, i dont like managers there, not good at all.... less hours , more work , i dont like it

Advice to Senior Management

keep it up the bad job, shitty envirnment , please educate your manager, no manners at all ,what can i say

Pros

Good Work life Balance
9/80 schedule
Flex time
Great 401k
Great Pay
Good place to start a career
Gym on location for a fee

Cons

Mobility is limited
Company takes a long time to make a decision

Advice to Senior Management

Certain departements are getting political now.