Relatively new to the company with decades of experience at other companies. One thing I’ve noticed at Chevron is that they place people with no experience into advisor, lead, and management positions where experience matters. The argument is that they are “growing capabilities” or whatever. I feel this is a major flaw in the system. I get that the higher you go you can’t know about everything, but moving someone who has had an entire career downstream and making them an upstream advisor seems a little crazy to me. Is this being fixed in the re-org?
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singapore is loaded with advisors and managers positions
fat middle layer
Look at who’s taking over BA. Zero effort promotion. Sh---y manager getting promoted
PSG 26 Expat easily can make over 600k per year.
@e6 Amen. especially the timing.
OP, this has been the story of Chevron since about 2010. Before then, promotions into management were based on one's ability to manage, after you had demonstrated technical prowess. After then, management ranks were saturated with high-pots who had never demonstrated any ability other than coming out of the right school or knowing the right people. They learned that "success" meant moving laterally often, then moving up. None ever looked back down.
Simple test is put them on leave for3.months. if no impact, they're done.
There are so many high PSGs in IT.
All those BU “digital” managers, who are merely traffic cops for the past 5 years. I JUST found out that the MCBU one and the manufacturing one are 27s!!! Good grief.
I ran a large team of petrotechs in a business unit at 26 and these are individual contributors in IT essentially not being effective at all.
It is disappointing that our VP RB approved such a promotion for his IT manager, while denying some of our senior subsurface people.
Thank you! I completely agree. It's frustrating when someone who has no experience & no clue is leading. Everyone else is laughing behind their backs because they stuff they say and do is so ridiculous. Half the time, we just ignore them & do what we want to do anyway. They are so clueless, they think they are having a major impact & probably put how they led the team on their resume.
Whoever talks loudest & fastest gets the leadership roles. Their talk doesn't have any content. Layers above them are even worse because they have no idea what the team really thinks of them.
Wow. All these amazing salaries. I, for a bit was feeling bad about the CVX folks.
Now, maybe not so much. You need to experience real life and real salaries and real problems for once in your coddled lives, lol
A solid PSG 26 on a good year can reach 500k with a high CIP and LTIP. PSG 26 is like "making partner" - it is a huge jump over PSG 25 due to higher bonus and LTIP.
Need just one example to prove you wrong : MW more probably down-stream’s most celebrated advisor, move to upstream and easily managed to advisor the whole organization , the board and Wall Street. While having his own talk show “Cramer and Me”, and being a notable Netflix critic covering Oil dramas. Proving you do not need any experience to make a big difference.
600k is in the PSG 27 band not 26. It caps out at 585k
Yes, I have decades of experience and can tell you that I am way more talented than any of you and am just a better employee hands down. I hope they fix that with these cuts, lol.
Experience is overrated tbh. I have a few PhDs reporting to me who are 10-15 years older than me and 2-3 psg below me.
It’s all about compliance over competence. They don’t care if you know anything about your job as long as you fall in order and don’t pushback!
You’re not a psg 26 if you’re making 600k a year
I’m PSG 26 and I make 600k a year.
Not true, they prefer to put a—-wh@l-z. In those roles because they are part of their “team”. You have to surround yourself in those higher PSG’s with lem…ings who will “have your back”