Hate on this place all you want, but it’s still leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the industry. We’ve got better pay, better benefits, and a better culture. Sure, it’s not perfect, but compared to some of the places I’ve worked, it’s more than fine. If an occasional layoff scare is the price we pay, so be it.
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@nh+1, you need to understand that I can just taste that EOI coming. What you say is perfectly valid, if I was 35 or so. I'm too close to the end to be switching companies. Again, you must have missed all those HR studies to determine "industry average" compensation for Chevron employees.
@k4, no actually you're 100% wrong. CVX pay is far from "average" for the work output applied. It is well above average. I know from personal experience from working elsewhere. You can rant on and on with the same BS, or you can simply find a fictional job at one of the fictional companies you all reference, otherwise you would not be here at all. Think about it.
SM Energy, Coterra, Apache, Hess and even Ovintiv may deeply disagree with OP
Oh, and one other thing - if you happen to be a certain (majority) demographic, you've been told several times over the last few years that your career is going nowhere, so we can be more diverse.
OP is sadly mistaken. Chevron's pay and benefits are decidedly average, you must have missed all those "benchmark" studies over the years to establish Chevron as a company with "world class" employees who work for "industry average" compensation. For the longest time, a culture of camaraderie and 'winning together' held the company together. That's all sadly far in the past now, so go on and be "world class" while settling for average compensation.
Wow, just wow. Everyone, simply EVERYONE on the layoff.com "worked for all of the majors" and not one of these employees managed to keep their job? None of "All the majors" were suitable or were you not competent enough or couldn't get along? No wonder you are on the layoff site, or maybe you all tend to BS "bigly".
And why are you here and why did you hire on if it's such a horrible greedy industry as if that's something unusual for any field. Please move along and save everyone else the grief. You may need them but they definitely don't need you.
Delulu!
Bingo!
That's really not saying much that we are better than the rest of the industry. We are in a greedy, ultra conservative industry that doesn't care at all about employees or anything else outside of shareholders. It's behind the times.
I think you are deluding yourself OP. CVX pays pretty much the same as the smaller companies in the industry. Worked for the majors and I agree with the comment above. Exxon is much better in terms of pay, decision making, executions and professionalism.
Complete falsehoods are being posted on this inordinately lie filled thread, even for the layoff site. I’ve worked for, direct and contract, for numerous other companies including most of the majors. Compensation at CVX is as good or better. Promotion hurdles are equivalent. The culture has degraded somewhat but also has elsewhere in the recent decades. The DEI discriminatory damage is correct but not unique to Chevron at all. Many of you claiming you worked elsewhere either are lying or have a serious case of the grass is greener disease. Sure, go for it. I've been there. it's no better. In fact, it can be much, much worse.
With all due respect, OP, what are you smoking?
This USED to be a great place to work, perhaps until about 15 years ago. Since then, the layoff cycle has been never ending, our benefits have been cut significantly and those benefit change communications left a lot to be desired, raises have not kept up with outside top companies and certainly not with inflation, as most of us experienced last year, and promotions have become a mysterious process that leaves one wondering what this company actually assesses to determine promotions, since it is clearly NOT sustained strong performance.
Additionally, we have introduced DEI in a toxic manner, and in the process have alienated portions of the workforce who have experienced reverse discrimination. That’s me saying this as someone who was favored by the DEI ideology of recent years.
So, no, I am not drinking the Kool-Aid anymore that we are the greatest thing since sliced bread. There is an appalling lack of accountability starting from the highest rungs of the org that has permeated and rotted our culture. This, along with the other issues that I just outlined, make this a workplace with a lot to improve. I doubt we can fix this if prevailing attitudes at the top persist.
Promotion cycles might be industry worst especially for top talent.
Pay is average.
Chevron’s pay is comparable at the base rate but other’s beat them in bonuses and benefits exponentially. Ive also never been at company where promotions are so difficult. This whole “prove yourself for less pay first” is ridiculous. I’m thankful for my job here, but Chevron isn’t outdoing other majors where employee culture is concerned.
Nonsense. I’ve worked for, and consulted to, several other companies. Pay was better outside, full stop. Promotions were far easier. And no one else is as self obsessed with themselves “our culture is the best! Our people are the best! Our processes are magical!” - which is a huge part of the problem here…that somehow being at Chevron make you great. It’s like a hyper exclusive college that only teaches underwater basketweaving. Hard to get into, but vapid and out of touch on the inside. Time to coffee badge…
Having worked for Chevron and then Exxon as a Contractor, Exxon was far superior in their decision making and execution and no-nonsense team approach. Exxon didn't treat me as anything but a cog in the machine, but there was a profound pleasure in working for the A Team.
Better than Exxon?