Are they out of scope? I hope to become one someday. Pay must be good.
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All the latest fellows are DEI politics?
Most of the Fellas at CVX I know are G@y but they are all very sweet.
Brian Fellow's - he'll survive the throw up incident on the bball court
Fellows is a Texaco legacy institution that needs to end now. The single biggest thing they do is the annual technology showcase that is redundant to other forums.
subsea pipeline team has two fellows... they promote each other, and hold big $ for R&D, they claimed saving company billions. like everywhere, it is about politics
@e7+1jpz1mvm6 thanks for the example but many fellows are just hanging out doing nothing. They do whatever they want, working on pet projects like they are untouchable. We’re not seeing value delivered so they shouldn’t be protected from layoffs
Isnt there a person who got a fellow title as a subsea pipeline engineer. Believe he came up with expensive rolling subsea buoyancy and tested it and regular floatation. He changed the variables of the two test samples to make his rolling one perform better. He then pushed it on the BU via a standard which increases cost to chevron but he got a fellow title and psg bump out of it.
AI fellow doesn’t know AI
There was a time when fellows had international recognition, were well-published in their technical areas, and had demonstrated significant bottom-line impact across multiple business units. Over the last decade, it has become more of an old boys' club (yes, also including women), with sections based more on who you know than on bottom-line technical expertise. It is a sorry reflection of the broader technical decline that began with the layoffs of the 2000s and continues, with a focus on computer technology (including agile), rather than maintaining and building the technical expertise needed to locate and develop commercial hydrocarbon reserves.
For a company that's been overtaken with DEI, we sure seem to have a lot of old ho---y dudes running around.
Y’all sound butt hurt. How is everything is because of DEI? Can’t you expect that you are just mediocre and have a stagnant career because of that? Be for real lol
Dude, in the last decade the majority of fellows have been white males. Why the hate on women and POC? Check the facts before you complain.
Jolly good, like most fellows
"zero pay bump for being a Fellow"
I knew one personally and he was getting full pay for doing nothing while over 70.
As far as I know, the quality of these folks has degraded in the last decade dramatically. Most of them are very narrow and some of them are a result of DEI. They are supposed to be industry leaders but few are near that level. This is a reflection of Chevron, no technology leadership.
You get zero pay bump for being a Fellow
There’s a chevron fellow sitting in an interim GM role, who has no business being a manager. There’s another chevron follow, who is a VP of a whole function, and he also has no business managing a large organization.
rock-a-fellows?
Just ask yourself, 'how many Chevron Fellows do I actually know, and what exactly is it that made them famous'? Chevron Fellows make up a country club for scientists and engineers who may have accomplished something in their careers a long time ago, but now are just glorified bureaucrats who jump from planning meeting to planning meeting, basically accomplishing nothing. Too nerdy to make it in Chevron management. Few even do any mentoring. In the last decade, most appointments have been DEI-based. As to whether they're in scope, the answer is no. They are the equivalent to college tenured professors, there's no mechanism to get rid of them.
Not all of them.
I doubt they lose their jobs. They actually know a thing or two and are proven.