Looks like we brought external hire as Engine IT head. Canary in coal mine. Same will happen for all departments and all our jobs will move offshore. Let the hunger games begin
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The head of India is an impressive guy. His first order of business is to block IT expats from going over and milking chevron even more. He wants to build by himself there and drive towards low cost. Good for him. It is criminal to see AS bring all his friends over as expat advjsors. How many does he need, and who are they advising when they have no employees or workflows yet.
LC and his cronies are clueless. GM had a sh---y IT shop. They ran it to the ground.
EB, RM, MN or whoever found this guy and thought he was good… it’ll be the worst decision they have made in years, and they have made many of those.
Have you heard what happened after LC’s CIO crew left Dell, Wal-Mart, and General Motors though? Agree that is exactly what he did everywhere he went, but he also left the places in disarray. It’s not a secret and easy to look up. Data privacy lawsuits, cyber issues, and totally botched offshoring. His IT organizations have been horrendous. It’s what happens when a person who is not very sharp, aka MN, goes and hires a guy who blindly follows directives with no critical thought and almost zero depth of knowledge. Look at who they assigned to enterprise leading performance as the delegate for IT. A complete joke of a director of strategy who is now in charge of hiring in India. The white men in charge probably think he’s the right guy to do it because he looks Indian and do not know that he is in fact not an Indian. LMFAO. Its fine though. Targets will be hit. And all will be good.
It has to be external because of culture change when it comes to delivery of results... reason why MN got LC as new CIO because his challenge was to change the IT culture. MN's area in Downstream is a much different "delivery culture" than Corp Depts and IT. It's like working for a different company. From a former external hire and been with Chevron for decades now, the Chevron IT culture outside of Downstream overall is also great but in IT at least a lot of folks who survived many ROMS are still around because they are "super nice" and have great friends
From a previous life working with LC this is their amo.... from Walmart to Dell to HP to GM... now CVX - he has a group of folks he will bring in - KG is one of them, and they will send everything to India and leave the business with bar bones- all in the name of cutting costs. All digital people should worry...
All the people who are getting promoted this November will be notified soon of their short lived success. You will wish that you hadn’t been promoted. Some people will talk a big game about being able to find another job outside, and “f chevron”. But reality is… look at the job market right now. Good luck out there.
My job almost certainly gone by 25/26 too. Which is somewhat bittersweet. I have genuinely enjoyed my time here and met some amazing people. But the organization has lost its way and become intolerably dysfunctional. In some ways, leaving will be sweet relief from a constant barrage of utter stupidity - in other ways, I will be leaving one of the most amazing jobs and companies I will ever likely have the privilege to work for. Here I have worked alongside some of the brightest people I have met.
The truly depressing part is that much of this isn’t isolated to CVX - it’s a broader societal problem fuelled by a toxic combination of sycophants, hyper-capitalism, selfishness and psychopaths.
It’s been a wild ride, folks. Look after yourselves, and each other.
My role is already gone by end of 2025. ENGINE will take most engineering jobs.
At least 50
I think the question is what LC’s target number for US cuts? 30%?
Of course it’s an external hire. Most of Engine will be external local hires in India. Keep an eye on the Chevron public job posting site and you can see the specific jobs they are hiring for.
Time to cash those cheques.