So for IT, with the exception of San Ramon and other edge locations, the layoffs didn’t seem to hit Houston that bad? I was expecting layoffs of almost apocalyptic proportions, but it seems most people I know kept their jobs. Or am I missing something and other platforms got hit hard?
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My platform seems exactly the same too, with the exception some people who got moved around. We did all this to keep the same cr-p leaders and team leads and useless product owners, global advisors, and product line managers. We didn’t even get rid of the bad ones. Ge-z.
@dn I’m in SR and was selected, but have no plans to actually move to Houston. I’m only at Chevron until one of these other opportunities pan out for me here
RBU: I know a team that had one EOI and then kept everyone after that.
I agree. I was stunned that there was like 85 fu--ing pages filled with people who got jobs. I was surprised on how many people in the Bay Area got jobs because just about all of them. I know to a fact, have no plans on moving to Houston. I was also stunned to see so many really bad performers on the list. Some really godda-n, toxic people, including a couple who had been laid off a few years ago, and I was surprised that somehow they had returned to Chevron.
2/4 left standing on my immediate team in IT. I know of at least 4 others in our PL left standing in Houston, and everyone in SR either took EOI or had already left for a new job elsewhere. Our PL went from probably 30 down to 12-15 or so in the US
UK IT is pretty much gone now except contractors and a couple of protected people...only someone not affected would say "it's not that bad".
@aj Cliff’s Note version: anyone selected better be prepared for their last days at cvx to be a living he-l. Imagine it being worse than it already is. Gonna happen very soon.
@ae I’m not trying to be selfish, I just don’t know. My platform seems exactly the same, so I wonder what was changed?
It means there's gonna be less F150s in the garage bc of wave 2.
ABU hardly touched. Can't manage costs or reorgs. It's a welfare project.
@b9 there was no “crazy talent” in San Ramon. If they were good, they wouldn’t be at Chevron in the Bay Area. Notice that it’s the Houston engineers who got jobs in tech companies, actually passing technical interviews… the so-called experts in San Ramon just provide some architectural non-sense guidance and have no clue how O&G makes money.
Look at what jobs they’re getting after leaving versus the other engineers not from the Bay Area who got jobs
It doesn't matter. The future of IT at CVX is in India. In a few years there won't be too much IT in US. If you got a position, make sure you polish your skills and be ready to jump.
IT in the ABU lost > 75%.
My group looks okay at like 18% but we still don't have a final work chart. But I know lots of folks in IT and saw some unsurprising EOI (badass' in Cali) and then surprisingly left standing. CVX always has had bay area tech vs Houston O&G but those days are gone sadly. Not hating on Hou but we had some crazy talent that we ran away.
IT at Chevron in the US is doomed. In a few more years nobody will be left in IT in the US except for probably the most senior architects. If you are beginning to mid career in IT you need to come to terms with not finishing your career here.
With Houston, about half of the people I recognized as star performers EOI'd. Despite that, I was surprised at the people left standing: they weren't the remaining star performers, but neither were they the self-promoters and underperformers. Rather, layoffs among the people I know seem to have almost surgically targeted the people who excelled at "support" type stuff: training, troubleshooting, getting teams to work together. If you've never had the need to call on these kinds of people, well... congratulations, here's hoping you continue not needing to.
My read is that they're expecting the remaining US teams to do more with less, and hoping that people won't associate the decline in support with the layoffs. And since there is no way that will work long-term, it also makes me suspect that they're probably thinking of even most "permanent" US roles as transitional until Engine is fully online. In fact, the cynic in me wonders if they're hoping to attrite down of the remaining US workforce so they quit voluntarily and without severance before the next round of layoffs, slowly enough that their roles can be moved to Bangalore with minimal disruption.
@a3
Have you been reading? 40% wave 2
Exploration left it up to BUs to do all the heavy lifting.
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Chevron could make more money by investing in Bitcoin rather than energy resources. Energy is a dead industry. New university hires do not want to work in the Energy business any more. Too sad....
@a3: It means MW thinks he is running an IT and M/A company, with the search for oil and gas being a side business.
Most SR folks took the EOI so that saved us.
Does that mean Wave 2 will be brutal and take the brunt?