How did it come about that this company, which once employed people who are very talented and with great potential, got to the point that today it employs people who are very average or below average and not up to the task? What is this all about? Is this company no longer able to attract people who are worthwhile or does it not want to have capable and talented people at all? When did that hiring policy change 180 degrees?
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The number of employees grew way too fast without adding any value prior to the acquisition.
Since VH Was put in charge. Anyone who kisses her fat incompetent a**, gets hired.
They had very competent mid-career technical staff from Amoco and Shell. They are just about all gone.
@1lmd- I echo your comments, but the poor technical work isn't limited to early career staff. Some of the cr-p I've witnessed during my short time at Oxy is mind-boggling. These people supposedly have 10+ years of industry experience! Ultimately, I place most of the blame at the feet of management for allowing this intellectual laziness to persist and spread.
it really is the blind leading the blind.
Give someone a computer and PowerPoint software and they think they know what they are doing. It is totally amazing to see some of this work that people turn out and they call it a great technical work. Let’s clip a little picture from this internet page, a little table from someone else’s work, a few graphs borrowed from some other source, and a conclusion slide. That is what qualifies for technical work these days. What the he-l are we teaching in college and in the early career these days.
Talent? You didn’t get hired because your talented! You got hired because of your white privilege!
Can you say Al Walker.
It’s the oil business. We are all snobs.
I could be wrong, but it sure sounds like you are quite the snob.
On the engineering side they used to only hire seasoned engineers with more than ten years of experience and strongly preferred technical graduate degrees. Over the past twenty or so years they have tapped the market directly from the undergraduate schools. This is one way the workforce has been diluted. Don’t get me wrong the undergraduate schools turn out some real talented people.
Troll.