Who saw the strategic focus area of building a powerhouse of IT talent? Are we really still on that fake bold goal? Chevron IT doesn't pay enough for IT to be a powerhouse of IT talent. I'm not sure what that Talent Manager is saying half the time. Horrible initiative.
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our best people in IT are actually those who are managed the least by the "talent" management org, cost the company the least (smallest employee headcount, very little contractors, fit-for-purpose agile BS), and bring the most value by being closest to how we actually make money. oh yeah, it's the group that also picked up all the petrotechs in every reorg so they know what the F they are actually doing.
There is a percentage of petrotechs who want to work in energy and are solid coders/ML practitioners on top of their domain knowledge. They are a key to framing and executing the digital innovation projects at CVX. Our leaders fail to identify them and as the result this talent feels underpaid and underdeveloped. No wonder they get frustrated and are leaving for tech companies and startups at alarming rate. They leave to get paid 2x and not having to put up with incompetence and arrogance of O&G management types.
If we want to succeed in this digitalization push, CVX needs to identify this talent early, pay them what tech companies pay their employees and give them a lot of freedom to experiment and explore. Until we do this brain drain will continue.
IT is stuck in a downward cycle. We absolutely have opportunities to disrupt the industry with technologies, but aren’t willing to pay top talent to stay here (assuming we get them in the first place), or give them interesting projects. Half the time we have software engineers doing support work - not even writing code.
So we don’t have high caliber SEs because we don’t pay them or give them interesting work. But we can’t give the ones we have interesting work because they don’t have the chops. Then our out of touch IT leaders have the audacity to talk about our “technical powerhouse” which is laughable but they may actually believe because they’re managers, not leaders.
April is going to be a bloodbath of resignations.
I wish our IT people were higher caliber.
So does a big ol boy playing with my joystick off campus count as IT work?
He claimed he placed a USB in my slot and uploaded some data in me. I assume that's computer related, I'm no good with that high tech bu-----t.
I hear the executives trashing IT all the time at the off campus site. Its pretty sad to be honest.
I am in IT and I am fed up. They are sending us back to the office, during a peak in the virus. I am not going back to the office, I will find a new job.
Chevron cozying up to Microsoft tells you SR has no faith in (or expectation of) building a premier IT department. Our IT are basically a bunch of car mechanics who wait by the phone to fix whatever is brought in broken. They don't design things, they don't take risks, they pull out the Microsoft manual whenever there's a problem. The handwriting's on the wall, next time we need more money for the dividend, IT will be outsourced completely.
From what I've seen, IT has no talent.
IT spends massive amounts of money to make the life of a petrotech more difficult. Your programs and cloud and all the other BS only hurts the bottom line. It’s doesn’t improve efficiencies
@taj+1f7s35kg this is the type of backwards close minded “thinking” that will sink the company
We are an oil company not an IT company. Go to an IT/Tech company if you want a powerhouse IT company. I imagine they will not higher you as you are not a powerhouse IT employee. So just stay were you are at and quit your complaining
It's just something silly that IT Leadership needs to keep saying to make employees feel better but it is obviously not true if you just look at the facts. Employee positions were vastly under filled in Transformation. The pay cannot compete with tech companies or even non-tech companies with better strategy. We are increasing use of managed service and have kept the bench heavy with contractors. The vague IT chapter names and putting Agile on everything makes us look ridiculous. Powerhouse of BS is more like it