If you are an experienced hire at chevron you have no future. Leave while you have control over your career. Chevron will have you drinking the koolaid and fill you with human energy propaganda. You will be in for a huge fall when they show their true colors
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I came in as an experienced hire. I knew that I was just a hired g-n brought in for one thing only. Pay and benefits were good. I was more than happy to take the EOI because the timing was good not perfect. It never will be. I review this board once in a while just to reinforce that my decision to leave was correct.
Feel like cheap slave labor. Came with 10 years of PE experience and was located in Midland. In the same PSG as some horizons.
Two PEs have left Midland to get higher pay in the past six weeks and I know of a few others considering it.
2024 - 2025 is going to be a big layoff. Hold on and get ready to take a package if you can. Lots of facilities engineers will be shown the door or moved to west Texas.
@3eeq, very common story. People with marketable skills from acquired companies have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cash in, to be 'free agents', if you will. Other companies swoop in to hire them, the staff realize that if they're going to have to fit in with a new culture, it might as well be one that uniquely values them rather than just being assigned a HR number and becoming 2nd-class staff. Also true that acquired company staff rise to the top of the list for the next layoff round.
Trying being a NBL mid-career “hire”. We got 75% pay and 1-2 lower psg of our peers, while generally being more experienced/talented (sorry it’s true). Wanna know why the attrition has been so high? Not because we couldn’t cut, but the smart people saw the writing on the wall…
Chevron doesn't do a lot of experienced hiring, we prefer low-cost college hires we can manipulate and who don't have more name recognition than management. I was a technical experienced hire because there was a glaring staffing gap when people from a bought-out company didn't stick around. Here's my experience: you'll get hired in at a premium ($ and psg), maybe with a signing bonus (not me, but I know some who did get one). The price you pay is that you're expected to hit the ground running without any onboading training, and it's unlikely you're going to get a title or psg promotion for a long time (I had to wait nearly 10 years). Raises will diminish each year. The win for the employee is that if you hired in 15-20 years before retirement, you can 'quiet quit' the last five years and no one will notice, they just figure you're bitter over no promotion or raises. Chevron is terrified of age discrimination lawsuits and will offer you a package rather than fire you, as they did in 2015 and 2020. Next one in 2025?
Advice for Experienced Hires:
Don't become a threat to your incompetent manager, and you will get promoted. If you do flaunt your knowledge, or solve problems that others can't fathom, enjoy your ride, get good money, but don't expect to become senior management. You are pigeonholed as a technical person, doesn't matter what you put on your PMP. So a team lead role is probably what you will achieve at the end of your career. That is, if you are lucky.
I was never promoted, had excellent yearly reviews always a 2+, it's just the way of things at Chevron, they reward the younger brown nosers at Chevron, I got great pay bumps and maxed those out, the only incentive was the schedule flexibility and the yearly bonus, 401K match and pension. I'm not complaining at all. I was in a great team and the usual company BS (Agile, accelerate downstream, more with less and so on) did get a bit sad at the end before I retired in 2020.
Yes! that's correct! Quite a few friends / cronies were hired as senior managers. Since we are not developing many in our ranks. But they are a different type of experienced hire. Not the regular kind.
Do your research and you will find that many senior leaders and execs were experienced hires. I just your generalizing since things aren't going your way. Maybe improve your performance and see what happens.
20 years from now the ONLY people that will remember you worked late or checked emails on weekends will be
your kids....
As a general rule experienced hires will not be promoted for around five years. Sometimes much longer.
What happened? Your manager just broke the news he is not putting you up for promotion this cycle?