For the APC people we all have friends at Oxy and there are mixed reviews on the culture. How is the first line leadership? Also, any departments there that are poorly managed that we should hope for a severance package rather than suffer at Oxy? Many of us at APC look forward for a chance to work for better leaders since at least 50 percent of our managers in the company are severely self serving and arrogant.
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Thanks for sharing the information and giving us some context about the structure and make up at Oxy.
+1 on G&G being needed. Especially geophysicists. We had open positions before the offer was announced. They put on a hiring freeze several weeks before the news came out, so I would be fairly certain they plan on integrating some Anadarko people. With all the new acreage, we will need more. Assuming we keep DJ and Powder River, I would imagine we keep most of the technical staff for those assets.
I believe that those APC employees working in the field have a much better chance of retaining their jobs at as it is those fields in Permian that Oxy, and Chevron are after, and we will need people. This includes IT, automation as well.
Those working in the office face a much harsher reality, especially the finance fields, I don't see how we need many of those people long term. Those in IT may also worry since Oxy is mainly focused in the Permian, so we already have processes and people in place for most major applications, Data Management, and infrastructure.
As for geoscientists, Oxy will probably retain a good number, Oxy is very busy these days in the areas they are currently in now, and there have been plans to hire some people even before any of this APC talk started.
IT at Oxy is considered lean, and everyone is always busy. Oxy can use some experienced people. The millennial IT workers are good at monitoring an application, but usually call the vendor to do anything major, and complicated trouble shooting.
In general, most people at Oxy are doing fine. We don't have the big complex policies and rules that the majors have, but we are not a mom-and-pop real estate company either, so there are still some things that you can do at Oxy that you would never be allowed to do at the majors.
Lastly, as someone else noted, Vickie came up through the ranks. She knows many people, she is very approachable, and will listen to you if you find yourself in her presence. She's very sincere and is doing well at Oxy and is certainly liked by most employees.
Low micromanaging. First line leadership and upper mgmt cares about employee development and interests. Most managers try to remove roadblocks rather than create them.
Of course some are bad and it is not perfect , but overall better than 3 other companies i’ve worked for
To be honest, I don't really feel like Oxy has a culture. They have some Core Values mumbo jumbo, but it's just meaningless Office Space style jargon (collaboration, risk taking, and so forth) but it's just trite sayings. There is more bureaurocracy than there use to be, but it's not as bad as most big companies. They try to do decent employee appreciation stuff...if Halloween parties at work are your kind of thing. Not my thing, but I appreciate the thought. Otherwise, it honestly depends on your manager. Most I have had are very cool and laid back, but I have had a couple of pain in the a$$ micromanagers. There are politics, but that's anywhere. There are good people at Oxy. But the culture isn't notable to me in any way. We all did very much appreciate that Vicki didn't do layoffs during the downturn. Regardless of how we feel about this deal, most employees really like her. She's one of us. She was an engineer.
OXY people won’t answer you. So you know our culture now.