Oil & Gas Downturn Impacting - IT Professional Chevron Employee Review

4.0
Nov 3, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Strong positive values and culture. Large global company offers good opportunities (longer-term). Oil & Gas (principal business) offers broad, complex and interesting challenges to work on. Good company to work for longer-term.

Cons

Large global company that's highly federated. Very slow to get things done, very bureaucratic. Oil & Gas industry downturn currently putting thousands out of work with lay-offs/redundancies and the work environment has currently become a lot more political and negative.

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5.0
Jun 19, 2026
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Pros

great pay, decent schedule, work is overall rewarding

Cons

would like to see 14/14 schedule become the norm

4.0
Jun 26, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The people at Chevron are great and overall it's a pretty good company - decent benefits and company culture. The 9/80 work schedule is a great perk. It has struggled to stay competitive with other big employers in California though.

Cons

Leadership has become increasingly out of touch, with regular re-organizations, lay-offs, and offshoring of support/operation functions disrupting day-to-day work and making processes even more slow and bureaucratic. Overall most employees are still wonderful to work with, but the constant leadership mantra of "do more with less" and removal of flexible/hybrid work has definitely reduced morale and made Chevron just another job, whereas it used to be a genuinely enjoyable place to work.

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