Chevron Reviews

Pros

Benefits, Pay, Friendly People, and Good Managers

Cons

Promotions, Work Loads, and Work Diversity

Advice to Senior Management

Working on improving companys goals

Pros

great training, work enviroment and work life balance

Cons

make a decision too slow;

Pros

work/life balance, 401K pckg, and decent salary

Cons

diversity is just a lip service meaning its not applied when giving promotions. Look at the team leads, managers, senior management..what do you see.. old white men who have been with company for ATLEAST 25 years.

annual performance review is based on stupid ranking structure which is very very subjective and not at all objective.

stop making so many stupid powerpoint slides and actually make decisions. stop hiding behind safety safety culture.

career development plans are a big joke just to make the employee feel good..

not the place for people who are high potentials who want to move up fast. standard line: one needs to put atleast 20 years in the company to get somewhere,..

Pros

Good pay, average benefit and some flexible schedules.

Cons

Promote from elite program graduates with stereo typed resumes only. Very hard for others to get ahead.

Advice to Senior Management

The company profit maybe 21st century, but the HR system of hiring/firing is still 1960's. It is hard to believe it is in the vicinity of silicon valley.

Pros

Easy access to fuel and snacks.

Cons

Low pay, no room for advancement

Advice to Senior Management

Higher pay, better training, get new pumps at all stations.

Pros

Employee respect and benefits are amazing, a great place to grow and learn new things and overall an excellent experience.

Cons

Didnt see too many downsides, if any. I stand by my word that it was a great place to work.

Pros

Employees and public safety is more important that work. Good place to start career and ample of opportunity to grow.

Cons

Very slow work culture and very behind in terms of technologies.

Pros

Only one - MONEY. Greed is all-powerful at Chevron. A pro is if you're on the "good" side of those in power, you will thrive. Probably have an interesting job, get good opportunities, plenty of raises and praise. The only problem is, how do you get into that club?

Cons

It's a cut throat environment. Women and minorities, especially minorities are blatantly discriminated against. They tout and publicize the few they have but continue to discriminate against the other minorities there.

Advice to Senior Management

Some day your secrets will be published in a book. Advice to management at Chevron goes ignored. They have a powerful legal team and intimidate any who speak against them (or they pay them off). John Watson is a sexist who made the comment in front of a woman human resources representative that planning is "women's work." He's tried to clean it up in the last few years so he could, on the surface make a good CEO. Some of us know the truth.

Pros

people, opportunities, work experience, industry

Cons

changes to downstream have been very broad

Advice to Senior Management

bring back employee surveys

Pros

Good respect for Employees and their right to a personal life.
Fantastic Work-Life balance especially the flexitime and nine-day-fortnight system
Decent exposure and opportunities to get in the petrochemical industry.
Can earn a reasonable income without being married to your job and being under constant stress.
If you are prepared to spend some extra time after hours there are good opportunities to develop skills as they have licences to tons of engineering software and plenty of good manuals on design that you can explore and get acquainted with.

Cons

The bureaucracy and red-tape wastes a lot of time and can be very frustrating.
Despite being an international company with many business divisions where i work there are no opportunities to explore or get a secondment to another area / division of the company. Combined with all the red-tape it feels like you get the worst of of both worlds - all the BS that comes with working for a big company but none of the benefits.
Wasting employees time with "token gestures" towards safety - e.g. having to observe someone walk on site and having about 4 managers hassle you about why your observation is late.
As an engineer on the client side you need to think extremely careful about overstaying your time there - if are hang around more than 5 years you may find that you do not have too many marketable skills. Other companies might not be that interested in how many personal safety plans you drew up or how many people you observed walking down the passage.

Advice to Senior Management

Seriously look at how much time gets wasted doing things that don't add value.
Stop the "Power Point" culture that has developed in the organisation.
Focus on real, serious safety things like incorrect P&IDs, badly corroded vessels and faulty level gauges before you worry about the minor issues.
Stop rotating senior managers every few years. Make them stay around to see the results of the decisions they make.