Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

LC was hosting his direct reports in a box at the Astros game last night, while his extended leadership team and some of their direct reports were deciding everyone’s fate. To be fair, some of his direct reports had a conscience and chose not to attend.

The writing is on the wall. IT / Tech at CVC has been dying for a while. LC is just confirmation it is dead. If you have a marketable skill and get a good offer, take it. There’s no benefit to staying here other than the pension if you’ve been here for years and years.

@454 which function?

@3dd This exactly! Our LT placed a manager because of the digital scholar title and they are a nightmare to work with. The manager is gone and we’re stuck dealing with this clueless manager. Digital scholar is a waste of money

I heard LC was forcing the job owners to keep some open and calling the candidates unqualified for the roles… so that he can fill these spots with his friends from the outside.

@3gb technically yes, but it’s actually 3 chipmunks on each others shoulders hiding under a trench coat, and all they know is how to say “data!” and “AI!” and how to sign checks for their buddies from all of the previous companies they’ve tricked.

We have a CIO?

Other energy companies plucking Chevron’s data science talent because Wirthless thinks they can be replaced with “digital” scholars going to MIT for 1 year to “learn AI”. What a joke.

LC is a space cadet, but I gotta say that he’s not really set up for success when you have a tool of a CEO who’s going around selling MIT digital scholars as AI experts. Even those Rice ones, you don’t make a data scientist or ML expert with 1 year of rudimentary computer science / data science textbook learning with toy use cases. But alas, this is the state we are in.

Would Chevron ever put a SCM guy who took Drilling101 and put him in Tengiz to drill all those wells with high H2S risk? Hmmmmm. Maybe they will.

All our real ML folks are quitting because of MKW and his numbnutz idea. LC is irrelevant.

Just like TCO and FGP, a f up of epic proportions by your future CEO, EB, with this hire that made no sense for anybody in the industry.

Maybe the thinking is that IT doesn’t matter and it is so bad that she wanted to shake things up and hire someone with no experience… can’t be worse than having real project managers for FGP vs throwing a bunch of culinary experts or Olympic curling champions running FGP?

Tell me IT doesn’t matter when we can’t account for production or if you can’t close your book or get paid.

IT doesn’t matter.

You’re on the money, @15j. I’m a data scientist who is considering walking away because of the reporting structure.

@129+1jv8zkzpj It was never a place for software engineers as we aren’t a development shop. But you’re wrong on data scientists. Many oil and gas companies have data scientists close to the business, and attrition for data science is actually quite low. They are basically just like the scientists and engineers in the business solving problems with different tools.

Where chevron f up was going to this ridiculous platform model with data PLMs who have no clue what data science is but are leading them in their work. Not a single data and insights PLM actually understands the work. They can barely spell optimisation or machine learning. It does NOT belong in IT. Most of the employees aren’t even IT professionals.

The data and insights PLMs should not even be the people leading data work either. Most of them have no clue about the business.

Bring back the COE!!!

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Don't forget the airplane LC will receive for his library after he leaves the CIO position.

LC is a useless empty blazer brought in only to be the figurehead of dismantling the IT function. He’ll be gone in a few years with a big paycheck for his trouble, as will his conflicts of interest with his old boss at EY

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I agree with you, Chevron is not a place for software engineers and data scientists. There are many other companies where an early career person can develop their skills and build a career. If I was an early career person, I would EOI and get a job somewhere else. The people that are best suited for Chevron are the dinosaurs like me that are approaching retirement. I would not want my kids to work at Chevron.
I wish the best for the young engineers to find a new position outside Chevron.

Where has LC been? He’s just in hiding. All these insights meeting and he’s not even attending. He’s not on summer vacation with the kids. This is prime in-office working days just before the summer when people disappear on vacation

While other leaders are holding info sessions to guide their new organizations through the big reorg, LC has been noticeably absent.

Let’s hope that he’s already getting the axe and getting sidelined

Going from industry leading to industry losers within the year. That’s the LC playbook. Carnage everywhere he’s been.

I would bet a lot of money that our top DS and cyber leaders will leave the company within the next few months.

Leslie d!cking around with the external search while leaving his internal candidates hanging when those are the two highest performing organizations in IT.

I swear the org chart LC (Mr. App Rat) is implementing is from the early 2000's. Brought his GM org chart with him and implementing it at Chevron. I suspect the titles we'll see on the job postings will come from that era too, like Systems Analyst.

lol it is a pretty small community and the people who left were ML engineers. If you’re a San Ramon DS… we understand. DS attrition in Houston is really still not a problem. The ones who left are.. honestly quite replaceable.

But I also doubt the couple of the Houston data scientists who left would just out themselves like that on here.

Nice try though.

Probably not a very good data scientist making sh!t up with “70%” of people… and obviously made up a false narrative about your job being offshored when we all find out tomorrow that the data science boxes pretty much were preserved…

I was one of those data scientists, and I can tell you from personal conversations that probably 70% of the people i know in IT are actively interviewing elsewhere, are taking EOI, or have already left.
Why stay at a sinking company that pays half the fair market value, when AI skills are the most in demand skills in the job market, and the only reward for staying is getting laid off so your job can be offshored so CVX fails slower?

Karma will do its thing.

I mean… who cares if these real data science employees and ML and software engineers leave?

Mike thinks he has sent digital scholars to MIT to learn AI and data science. Less than a year of systems design in an MBA program makes them fully qualified to do data science. We’ll be fine.

MW, MN, and EB are id--ts.

Hire in a loser IT manager from HP and GM to be CIO, who then proceeds to upgrade the GM positions to 29 and fill those with external hire buddies, who have the mindset of technology dinosaurs that are gone extinct.

Meanwhile, the real talent that has been inside Chevron all along have just recently left for places like Google, Meta, AWS, Microsoft all in the time that he’s been bringing in cash for his buddies who have shown nothing to deserve that kind of pay.

If the culture is going to su-k@$$ anyway, might as well go get paid for it. Management don’t recognize that the talent is here, and what’s holding them back is the f’ing business “leaders” or those IT middle managers who somehow all landed jobs in this previous round.

He’s not even present. Just collecting his millions and having his old boss at EY do his dirty work. Still on that t-t

Losing a lot of very intelligent hard working people because of that di-khead and his sh*ty centralization agenda. Narrow minded and the man has zero real world IT experience. Probably got into the position by eating someone's re---m out.