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What is it like working in IT? Does the culture vary by team, department, or division? What is the work-life balance like? Just looking for an honest assessment here...understand opinions and experiences may vary. Thanks

Anyone know of RIFs at VP level in IT?

LC losing the FLT. Subsurface and C&C GMs both gone. Just the plan he had so he can insert his General Motors cronies disguised as EY consultants.

Who’s next to leave? TK? KB? Those are the only 2 left from the original BB crew. Every single one of them “retired” early or left.

Even with the golden handcuffs of LTIP, all these PSG 26+ are leaving IT voluntarily.

When was the last time you had a 1:1 with your manager? Do you have yearly goals you commit to? Do you receive a year end review?

Apologies.
Please be aware that planned optimization activities must be postponed this weekend because we migrated our accounts and nobody in the department can reach the share point with the list of lucky block 6 lottery winners.
We are working around the clock and expect to have normal randomized employee census optimization up and running soon.
IT apologies for any delay in receiving your severance.

PS : next month we expect to have the census agent bot up and running. It will work round the clock to detect any employee down time and automatically fire people when direct labor drops below daily targets.
These are exciting times.

Happy separations day!

Sometimes you got to Like BB - 2 departure in one email…both were incompetent.

I hear all of IT will separate from ConocoPhillips and be in sourced as InfoSys employees.

Anyone know if the JE calendar was updated for the rest of the year? I heard there was something in April? If IT is really moving toward a 70/30 HIH/US split, it seems like there will be quite a few more JEs coming up. Low key hoping I get the axe 😬

A College Planning Council meeting addressed campus updates. Superintendent-president Erika Endrijonas announced upcoming faculty layoffs. Four to five positions in business services and IT will be affected. The college also plans to streamline its technology infrastructure. These IT changes are expected to save $72,000.

Santa Barbara, California

https://www.thechannels.org/news/2026/03/09/college-planning-council-discusses-faculty-layoffs-upcoming-it-changes/

So does ppl even get emails before they get revoked?

I know Chevron monitors activity. Obviously. But has anyone else received a new pop up to confirm that we understand and agree with our appropriate use policies? I’ve asked around and my peers haven’t received….

What is the deal with the hatred towards IT at Chevron? Its pure he-l working here in IT as you are treated as a 3rd class citizen. We are the first for our ignorant ELT to pick on for cuts all while that advertise around Houston how they are technologically advanced and talking about how important IT is. For those who say we dont pump oil, try to do your job now without IT. Like getting paid, well software makes it happen.

Will IT be hit again in this next round of layoffs

Anyone working remotely from Thailand for Bank of America — any issues with IT or access, or was it fine? Thanks.

Any likelihood of Headcount Freeze being lifted any time soon. this is regarding a job on the IT side. Thank you.

Aravind/ Blanchard’s org “flattened “‘even more.

Aravind is the one leading the effort to outsource to India- FYI

What's going on in IT? Two years ago there was one VP/GM position, the CIO, although they were approved for two. Now there are three VPs, including the CIO; the second VP position (then GM) was filled in 2024. That's a big increase in comp as VP's are a min of $850K (salary, VCIP, and RSUs), plus other benefits. I guess the recent layoffs in IT paved the way for the increase in comp for the newest VP. Welcome to the club!!

With the CIO shown the exit door, who will do more lay offs now in IT?

I'm going to tell IT I want them to uninstall Outlook from my laptop because for some reason I can't uninstall Outlook myself. I stopped reading or responding to emails last fall. There is no value in the emails I receive, and it's a waste of my time to move all the unread emails to my delete folder every day.

I’m hoping someone in management will read this and wonder why we have Refining PCN doing the majority of IT infrastructure, and IcS staff at sites are pretty much useless and do very little of the core business.
It’s the biggest waste of resources at the sites. If you look at the top 2 incentives they implemented ClarOty and SolarWinds are totally a joke. ClarOty isn’t doing anything and ICS management is projecting the benefits. Ask any PCN Team lead they will laugh!
Please help us at the sites!!!

Destroyed one of the best IT organizations in the industry. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

What functionality still runs on the mainframe and what has been ported to Cloud?

With the number of major IT incidents after a big layoff event, LC has his whole organization follow his EY friends' direction of making tactical work very visible by spending more time in Azure DevOps (ADO) than actually delivering work.

It's unfortunate that business leaders (as well as his own boss RB) cannot go into ADO and read the ridiculous types of features and stories that IT employees are being forced to put into ADO. A fine tool for developers has been ba----dized into an overwhelming complicated task list, with the CIO having prioritized data quality in ADO as his top item to deliver. There are literally hundreds of thousands of entries, each entry with the expectation of having completeness, with scrum masters and RTEs writing up stories that effectively means "schedule a meeting with stakeholders xyz" with a value of 10 because they had to fill in all these ridiculous fields.

How can RB be OK with this? An entire IT department wasting their lives away..

Saw this one coming. 13 or so people gutted from eviCore IT Technical Support. Watch those positions open up at HIH in the next couple hours.

Good luck folks! Hope everyone finds work quickly. They got a good handful of us this am In IT. Brutal hit for our teams. Decisions were made after the town hall in dec. But if you got a invite this afternoon thats prob good news. The cuts were already made this am.

I already got my invite with upper management - a 1on1 invite that has never happened before. In Evernorth IT side.

Bass Pro Shops is looking to decrease their overhead costs by reducing the use of US based employees. Many layoffs across the company and acquisitions. Seem to be following their leadership in using offshore contractors to decrease cost of US-based talent.

I was laid off after Q1 results were announced, even though there was no formal announcement of any cuts by the company. Came as quite a surprise.
They are doing stealth cuts every quarter, may not be a high number that they need to announce, but its happening every quarter.

Roughly a month ago the UK IT team were laid off without any consideration.
After many of the Hellaby office started to complain we're needed, they back tracked and said there's three positions in Hellaby and the London team is now staying.
The current director - who knows NOTHING about IT- is being made team lead. I repeat, NOTHING about IT and it's issues.
Their name rhymes with Haki Sidey.

Having worked here for a bit on the IT team, I can tell you there's nothing good coming from this.
All laptops are expected to have a 10-20 day dispatch time!
From our current 1-2 day for UK

AI and India have ki-led this company.

Are there any upcoming layoffs/RIFS in IT departments, besides SRE?

Having an outage to many employees whose laptops have been disabled, some since yesterday. Waiting on Vendor to resolve

Will there be a second wave of IT layoffs in 2026?

My team got hit. Me, another senior architect and my manager!

Been here for 3 years. They mentioned "financial struggles".

FYI, I'm on the I.T. side working with Epic.

My take is that Services & Strategy is the most useless area of IT thanks to the SVP that Smurphy hired (surprise surprise). All they have done is introduced a dumpster fire of a process to "manage" demand and a half-baked attempt to prepare for RTO. Thoughts?

Send in Engine!!!!!!!!

Ok.. my understanding is depts such as Hr, finance and IT are vistance networks
So what happens then if Ruckus and aurora networks are both sold off

Some companies don't keep any employees for longer than a day or two once they've put in their two weeks notice. Other companies only immediately cut you off if you have certain types of data access, security clearance etc.

What does Cigna typically do? Particularly for onshore Band 4 employees in IT.

KP, the witch herself, announced today that Sales, Marketing, and Workforce Solutions are now joining. Get ready folks in IT, another RIF is at the doorstep.

What are you hearing about COP outsourcing IT to India? Hearing a lot of rumors.