Chevron Phillips Chemical Employee Reviews about "upper management"

Pros

9/80, several locations, good safety culture

Cons

Limited career opportunities; Entry level management positions really only available for the favored few who will also often move up quickly, and whose careers are actively managed by mid/upper management. Health plans structured such that high deductible plan is cheapest option, but has fairly high deductibles (9k in network, separate 12k? out of network, and they don't cross apply). Instituted yearly charge for having spouse on medical if they could get it through their employer. Overtime expected for many, and compensation for salaried employees for the extra hours works out to a fraction of their normal hourly-equivalent rate. Depending on the site, tend to run fairly understaffed.

Pros

some of the employees and honest and hard working

Cons

Upper management does not stand behind the polices they put in place

Pros

High pay for long hours. Understaffing provides lots of opportunities to learn different tasks at expense of work/life balance.

Cons

Management bullies team members. Conflicting direction given to employees creates confusion. Complaints are addressed with gaslighting techniques. Don't expect your supervisor to support your efforts or to advocate on your behalf to upper management. Leadership program is very poor. Performance review program is confusing and one-sided.

Pros

Great work/life balance, flexible work schedule, competitive pay, challenging assignments, good benefits, good team to work with.

Cons

Limited upward advancement, limited training and development opportunities, upper management support

Pros

Decent salary and bonuses. The hourly operators and maintenance personnel are top notch and will go out of the way to help you if you need something.

Cons

HR is less than useless. If you ask a question, they will talk all the way around it without ever answering the question -- Upper management encourages retaliation if you ask the hard questions. Management still uses forced ranking during evaluations so even if everyone in a dept is doing well, the Supervisors are required to rank someone or multiple employees depending on dept size as needing improvement. If you're given an assignment, heaven help you if you get sick and don't make the deadline -- you are likely to pay the price with your job.

Pros

Ok pay, ok benefits, trying to improve its culture and evolve with times, but still has ways to go.

Cons

Upper Management mainly comprised of white, older males. Very little opportunity for females, minorities, younger people (they consider 40 too young for top management roles). Little respect for procurement professionals.

Pros

Good working team, all worked great together

Cons

Upper management did not have a clue as to what they where doing, typical engineers wanting to add and or change this, that where not relevant.

Pros

Great benefits and bonus structure. The company is in a growth mode even with the price of crude at its current low. There's alot of opportunity if you want to move up the latter

Cons

Saudization has not worked the way upper management had anticipated. A large majority of the young work force lacks motivation and have become complacent and have found a refuge in knowing it is very difficult to be terminated. With that being said it puts alot of pressure on expats to get things done safely and in a timely matter.