Devon Energy Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Devon Energy full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – lots of opportunity for grow, tons of development and education classes

Cons – Lateral promotions, lots of room for growth and change but they reward people coming in the organization better than those within, meaning you can get promoted to a new position with a slight bump in pay while a person coming from outside with less experience will get a more competitive salary.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Devon Energy full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – This is good company to work for. I worked there five and a half years. Like the other oil and gas companies, they provide good benefits for their employees. In addition, you'll find good people there to work with and work for.

Cons – There is not much bad to say. It is a large corporation and as a large corporation, they may have to make business decisions that a given person may not like. For example, there are times in the oil business when you have to exit business in one part of the country and grow business in another part of the country. This always effects jobs, but the company trys to take care of the employees that can not relocate.

Advice to Senior Management – Thanks for hiring good people and remembering to take care of them as people. Thanks for five good years. I'd do it again if I could.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Devon Energy

Pros – Treats employees well, pay is great. Plenty of opportunities to learn and improve skills.

Cons – Don't have many programming opportunities. Interns do not get very impressive projects.

Current Employee – been working at Devon Energy full-time for less than a year

Pros – The benefits and salary are top of the line. The people that work in the tower are the best and brightest in the industry. Fast paced and performance based. You are very well rewarded for delivering and meeting your goals

Cons – The pace lends its self to burn out. IT is moving to a open floor plan that is going to make the staff very unhappy. Moving 4 people to a cubicle that is currently the size of 2 people.

Advice to Senior Management – The open floor plan for IT is going to hurt one of Devon's core values...Hire the best people.

While current staff may accept moving from their current nice working environment potential new hires will be quick to shy away from the cramped IT environment. Highly technical SR level IT staff they will most likely look elsewhere because of this arrangement.

The open floor plan does not appear nearly as open as staff was lead to believe and there are some hard feelings among current staff because IT appears to be the only group sacrificing space to make room for more people.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Devon Energy full-time

Pros – Great benefits, nice place to work

Cons – Stock seems to be declining

Former Employee – worked at Devon Energy full-time for more than a year

Pros – Family oriented company culture
Great pay, benefits, bonuses, perks (new tower restaurant, gym, etc)

Cons – Not as global as some other energy companies (limited to North America)
Not as fast moving opportunities for advancement (most employees see this company as a lifetime employer and there is not as much motivation up the career ladder)

Advice to Senior Management – To attract and keep talented candidates, may need to be a bit more proactive in strategy and execution

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Devon Energy as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Don't know any at the time for job

Cons – None at the moment right now

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Devon Energy as an intern for less than a year

Pros – They treated their employees very well and most everyone was legitimately happy to go to work. Great pay, good hours, they did employee days where they would buy everyone ice cream etc. . .great gym. Above all great and involved managers and a good learning environment.

Cons – Nothing comes to mind. I suppose the only real downside is that their main operations are in Oklahoma City and some people may want to live in more urban areas, but it's a fantastic city and company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Devon Energy full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good benefits and salary and bonuses

Cons – None at this time great company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Devon Energy full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Benefits are great,great employees,great CEO

Cons – Should'nt have downsized the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company