Something just dawned on me. Out of curiosity, I was reviewing Chevron’s ENGINE posts on LinkedIn. Nowhere is there any mention of “low cost environment.” This notion is mentioned many times by BK and other “leaders” of ELT during their spills on competitive performance…aka firing of American workers.
My thoughts….this is exploitation. Why else is Chevron going head first? Why else is Chevron there?
They will do what we do cheaper. This will be another revolving door just like the ongoing IT fiasco. No bench strength and perpetual failure.
Apart from ELT running this once great company in the ground, ignoring feedback, look-backs, and learnings are also among their greatest attributes.
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@nw+1js6y73tf, look at YOUR BS LinkedIn profile, ROTFLMAO!
Death, taxes, hates on Indians
Definitely we will give u a break since you have not seen what working in a small startup, midsize company or many other non old school companies outside of Chevron is really like... even the layoffs here take forever...with 1 month in payroll after the last day....
“look at their LinkedIn profile” give me a break.
Of course. You spend 20% of your time on Football, 20% on basketball, and 15% on Baseball. Not even mentioning the golf. Indians can learn in a day what you learn in year. Face the reality.
LOLLLL “look at their LinkedIn profile” give me a break. Anyone can put anything on there with no verification and Indians love them some pointless certification badges but give them a real world problem and watch that certification melt into nothing
what they have hired so far cannot be even called ‘talents’…more like ‘trouble makers’…
Honestly, it is not just low cost -- lots of companies are already in Bengaluru. It's getting great talent globally.
I've started to see some of the IT engineers in Bengaluru now and the transition is starting.... I recommend to people to look at their LinkedIn profile - at least the folks I checked has legit training than our current staff (AI, etc.)
Again.. many of our IT staff do not even know simple source code management (GIT or even TFS back in the day) - and they have tons of "excuses" that they are doing SaaS or similar ... even though they have tons of configurations files in JSON and database scripts they had to work through
Yawn, What's a jeet? Isn't that a racial slur? You guys seriously need jobs. Real jobs. It can't happen too soon. Hopefully the ones left will have to finally work too.
Over 300,000 US jobs are offshored annually and the number is increasing. Most, although not all, are technical jobs that require skilled individuals (IT, accounting, digital application, engineering etc). Outsourcing is one of the primary reasons people lose their jobs in the US. Why is DJT allowing this while trying to bring back a few thousand low paying manufacturing jobs that nobody wants.? Offshoring increased during DJT's first term, expect the same to continue during his second term.
Naive! Don’t trust us Indians
12-15 people a month per function.
On average the ENGINE is getting filled with about 12-15 people a month. This is about average across that businesses moving. As previously stated, one of our MSPs is fulfilling most of the positions to aid us in getting to our magic 600 number.
So at this rate, yes this will take years to fulfill if it does at all.
CVX is an international company with offices all over the world. This has been happening in different areas and offices for the last 50 years. Nobody seems to notice anything until they are directly impacted. If the individuals who are complaining are so valuable, it should be easy to find employment elsewhere or start your own company and run it the way you want.
I agree, stop creating and spreading rumors. Good thing that you guys don't work for a real company where you have to produce or you get cut. Oh wait, some of you may have to soon. Oh sweet irony!
If I make it through the reorg im keeping a tally book of every new engineer I have to work with.
Stop spreading and creating rumors.
@StressedDawg, the reorg was never going to be done by July 1st. That’s just the first half. You still have the entire other half of the company to work through.
Same corporate playbook - follow, fail, cut…
LC is working with his old GM friends who are hiding under the E&Y brand. He stood up his own leadership team under E&Y, where they are hiring and training all the people, just waiting for the day to lay off everybody in Chevron IT and replace them with all his India friends from GM.
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It’ll be done by July 1 but they’ll have to extend a lot of folks through end of year for transition from what I’ve heard. New employees aren’t in place in engine and they’re having to settle for less qualified candidates or rehire when they don’t come to the office after accepting an offer.
Engine leaders are hiding the failures from executive leadership already in keeping with the cultural change we can expect coming from India. Never admit failure never take accountability, always try to cover up first and if that fails find someone else to blame. In this case it will be US experts who get blamed for not doing good enough training even though we’ll be asked to train unqualified people
Odds the reorg is really done by July 1? Seems like this will take way longer, in true Chevron fashion
heard we can't hire anyone there so they have to hire contractors for us to train so we can tell them how to do our jobs
I’m still scratching my head that we think we can find technical petro professionals…
Yea and part of the reason is because they got the foolishness that is Ranjan running engine hiring, lying to leaders about the progress. What Bangalore IT professional wants to work for Chevron when all of the high tech companies are there
Think of the quality of talent we are getting compared to the ones in cheaper cities
It’s not even that much cheaper for IT. LC brought his 1990s playbook over from Walmart, Dell, HP and thought he could get 4-5 Indians for the price of 1 American. Instead, he had to reduce all the planned ENGINE IT headcount when he woke up in 2025 and it’s now 2 to 1, especially at a place like Bangalore,
They aren’t saying cheaper and cost because it’s bad PR. They aren’t going to publicly announce jobs are being offshored because it sounds bad.
It’s possible the applicants already assume low cost is the reason for having selected India, certainly not a first for Western companies.