Pros
9/80 work schedule and all the holidays off. Decent vacation time. Some awesome people to work with from time to time. San Ramon is a good location to work for. Very professional but laid back at the same time.
Cons
Very little advancement for women who are not engineers or lawyers. Sexism is rampant and if you're not a smiling pretty princess to your boss, then expect a low performance review despite any miraculous contributions you may have made to the company over the year. Tons of rampant nepotism and the good ol boys club in the field locations. Management changes at a whim, so by the time your department starts to implement the changes of the new supervisor they are suddenly replaced and the cycle starts all over again. The company will crash an entire local community by firing multiple contracted companys at Christmas time. All in the name of "saving money" on a higher ups PMP to look good at the end of the year. They end up wasting millions by these bone head moves (which nobody monitors any of that waste), not to mention the thousands of workers who were affected by the changes. Tax payers get to pay for that one via food stamps and welfare. The laid off workers are usually rehired by the replacement contracting company for a much lower wage than previously held. Keeping wages low low low! Chevron uses contractors so they don't have any liability if the kill someone or blow something up. Don't sue us.....sue company xyz because they built what we told them to build!!! Workload also unfairly distributed between office personnel. One person would support a team of 1 supervisor,12 employees and zero business partners at a single location. Another would have 50 employees, 3 supervisors, and 500 business partners at 3 locations for the same or MUCH less amount of pay than the person with 12 employees to deal with. Each area operates much different than another area claiming that all of the company operates exactly the same. Everyone is "meeting" to death. Causing nothing to actually get done. But let's have another meeting to discuss how we can get things done. There's a reason why nobody drinks the water at oil field locations. It's highly polluted and NOBODY cares or tests the water at all. Bottom line if you want a great career that will last way into the future, stay away from oil and its instability.