My experience with digital scholars has been that they have ideas that are not very practical. They don’t have experience inflecting people in a positive way and are more academic. Will the title keep them from getting laid off?
What a waste of company resources to put them through the digital scholar program.
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Worked with three different digital scholars over the years and two of them were great. The third was kind of mid, but it wasn't really his fault. Management tried to shoe ho-n him into a project that didn't lend itself to any fancy data science skills.
Many digital scholars have submitted their EOI. What a deal. Free education and getting salary and CIP while away for school.
Another huge waste of Chevron investment in these people who aren’t any more special than the person getting laid off with no MIT degree.
A lot of the scholars are good people. I don’t blame them for taking advantage of the company being wasteful.
Will be interesting to see what happens with this rom and see whether MN makes people practice what he preaches with accountability. Massive waste of money with no value delivered. In fact, loss of value when the most basic tools for subsurface professionals don’t even work. You want to do proper reservoir management or proper subsurface characterization? It’s no wonder we keep drilling dry holes and have underperforming wells. Triple crime.
Triple crime, I love it. A digital scholar I know hates it with a passion so you just may get your wish if they have their way!
If the digital scholars could end triple crime, it would pay back the investment.
Yeah, the program was unnecessary, we already had people with qualifications and experience far above getting a shiny new degree. I don't fault the people that got a free degree, but the management that have a superficial understanding of the space and don't try to consult their own highly paid and trained people, they are incompetent.
I have a bachelor of engineering, a Masters in Numerical Analysis and a phd in a related field and my manager constantly tells me to check in with the 1-year digital scholar for advice. Probably a combination of their complete lack of a clue as to what I do combined with a misguided attempt to align and inspire. Crushes my spirit every time. But the digital scholars are mostly pretty alright.
Uh there is definitely HR digital scholars. They’re terrible.
I love the person who gets on here every single day and sh--s all over RM like it is their job.
Not a single HR person has become a digital scholar. Your hatred for RM is insane and delusional. Get a life.
The idea that you can sent folks with very little demonstrated computational / numerical competency into a one year training program and they will somehow become “digital scholars” is laughable to start up. It takes a year long program to get a “process technology” degree and the certification for similar types of general tech assistance roles: we going to start also calling them “scholars”. Reminds me of the exalted position of sanitation engineers (i.e., janitors).
That’s exactly right. Digital scholars are in leadership roles yet they don’t have the experience or skillset to lead. Results in chaos. No one wants to speak up for fear of losing their job.
Why even send anyone from HR through the Digital Scholar program, they’re HR…the heck
This was RM shinny new thing. She sent people from HR there and other useless functions and very few Petrotechs or Emgineers. It was very messy.
RM destroyed this company..seriously
Laughing all the way to the bank with our free degrees. #staymad
They usually don't touch folks in Horizon's, Development programs, and these types of programs. Haven't you learned anything here lol?
I think management did not know what to do with the skill set. In my experience they put scholars in charge of Digital efforts which were more Project Engineer roles that did not require an MS in Digital/Data Science. Any bright PE or experienced engineer could have filled these roles. Like with many things in the IT world, it was the new bright shinny object that everyone had to have. No thought into how this would impact the business or follow-up to see if it actually delivered results. It will likely get cut when budgets are squeezed.
I've had decent interactions with digital scholars, but no doubt some of them are di-ks, just like the rest of Chevron.
They will mostly be promoted.