Let’s have a discussion about this. What’s everyone’s thoughts on the digital scholar program?
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I was looking at it, and if you do it you're locked to CVX for 10 or you have to pay the tuition back.
IMO, it seems like a great way for CVX to guarantee they have a decade of underpaid, underappreciated labor.
Have any of these digital scholars actually produced anything?
A complete joke. The only thing the program does is shield high-pots from responsibility and accountability while they're playing at MIT.
The program has delivered a set of high-pots even more pompous, arrogant, and self-entitled than your 'regular' high-pots. Lots of powerpoints, but nothing delivered since the program started. Other companies hire what they need, Chevron tries to retrofit their square pegs to fit in the round ho-e. If they were so good, other companies would be hiring them away. To date, I don't know of any 'scholar' who has been left for other companies. A failed effort.
"Digital Scholars" is just another ego-boosting high-pot avenue for advancement, since there are fewer management positions for them now. For what we paid MIT, we get back half-baked, jargon-spewing 'experts' who will end up as managers rather than doers. Just think about it - one year of education is going to give you an expert at something?
It is an attempt at a cultural shift, but rather misguided. The money would be better spent in supporting the students a specific selected professors in university graduate studies programs linked to internships. It is much cheaper to influence what is in the recruitment pipeline than to re-educated employees one at a time. These is the sort of compantacies that need to be built up and supported within the center doing real work, not by farming a few paid employees into short term external graduate programs.
In a way it’s a brilliant and relatively inexpensive way for CVX to keep young and more digitally savvy petrotech technical talent around. Think of it as an MBA equivalent for petrotechs who don’t want to go management.
Without it a lot of them can easily get a Data Scientist or Solution Architect roles in AWS/Azure getting paid 30-50% more with much faster career progression and less corporate bullsh-t to deal with.
I believe they are locked into the company for 5 years or they have to repay the program.
This is too funny.
You mean PowerBI school?
It's the future of this company, just like delfi
Digital scholar? Is this a joke? We are all doomed.
It’s a thing if you’ve got a clue
Can you name one? They got a nice paid vacation but what now?
It’s just another carrot to be dangled. If org chart doesn’t allow for upward mobility then need to have something to entice the masses
I would check thelayoff's site for things like that. Not here.
Is that still a thing? Seems like it’s the only thing on some people’s minds these days.
Is that still a thing?