If you are 1 to 5 years at Chevron and trying to navigate your career path, it might seem foggy but there is a method to the madness. You have not fully built your network yet while everything seems to be changing fast. My advice is collaborate more than you compete. You will be surprised how many employees with 10+ years of experience will be willing to mentor and even lend you their connections if you run into a rough patch. Compete against yourself to be better, not against your co-worker. Take advantage of all the training opportunities Chevron provides. All of that is well within your control, everything else is mostly noise. Trust the process.
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My advice is GTFO of there quickly! When you keep increasing the number of jobs outsourced to other countries (including engineering), you know they will stop at nothing to deliver their cost targets. I'm waiting for a major process safety event due to incompetence / AI engineering.
@jq exactly why im leaving. Its like a certain group got stuck at the top and wont give opportunities to the next generation at the cost to the future of the company. But such is life when we live quarterly earnings to quarterly earnings.
@jq. Horizons isn’t dead in Bangalore. AS had a LinkedIn posting a week ago on the 50 person Horizons start group there … apparently they also “lifted and shifted” the college recruiting process.
Shedding <5yr employees like we have been is one of the strongest signs we have a real problem IMO. They don’t trust process. Horizons is dead but still sold as a perk to new hires. (Upstream) PSG movement is stagnant. Most of the young 20s I’ve spoken with are frustrated, seeing very little movement against CO. Their experiences / opportunities seem very different than mine when I came in 13yrs ago. Wish them the best!
Process? Whar is the “process” exactly? Chevron has been a chaotic mess for the past decade. If Chaos were a “process” it certainly wouldn’t be one to be trusted.
@fr struck a nerve i seems
@e3 Neil Young says ".... single mothers make better lovers..."
@br Thanks I did win, but I am not morbidly obese. I exercise while I am at work. 30+ years of service and waiting to get the next layoff package. Even if they lay me off before I get a package I still won!
@a4 Thank you!
I noticed several people disagree with us. I wonder the type of person that would disagree with advice based upon past work experieince at Chevron.
@a3 Spot on advice!
@ca player i never left.
I also make fun of single mothers when the mood arises
@br He's back! NFL fat slob guy is back!!
Young employees should leave. You wont have jobs here in five years. Find a company that doesn’t offshore everything. This place is not what it used to be. Houston will continue to decrease in size.
Treat your current job as training for your next job.
If you are unfortunate enough to be one of those fat slobs who have 30 years while never accomplishing anything and is morbidly obese and talks about the NFL all day i guess you won…..
Agree with the OP. Sure , find another industry if you like. Find another company. What's stopping you? Seriously, what's stopping you???????? Chop Chop, Find another job!!!!, find another company, find another industry!!!!!
You also have your entire lives/careers to find another job and switch industries. Do it now if you're that disgruntled and miserable, your coworkers are likely tired of hearing all of the whining. Career people do switch jobs, companies, and sometimes completely different industries at times. Do you online social media types have it in you?
Or would you prefer to get a few solid years in working for a major and establish good reputations and gain experience? That's all the OP's getting at. Your choice.
If you are young the. Leave. Plain and simple. Your job will be moved to another country. Guaranteed. Get out while you can, take your experience and move on.
If the job can be done in Houston it can be done in Bangladore.
@a2 completely agree and like the way you respectfully disagreed with the OP. No future here worth starting a career.
My advice is to find another industry. If you are onshore, there won’t be the same opportunities we had in the past. The company is taking a different path by moving jobs offshore. There are no more pdcs so you are at the mercy of your manager and they are more concerned about themselves- not losing headcount they may not be replaced, making themselves look good if you’re a top performer. As for others mentoring you- think about how that works in an environment where everyone is ranked and the bottom are pushed out.
I tell young career employees to leave and put your years of service somewhere with a real future. I wouldn’t apply if I were in your shoes. There are much better options out there- healthcare, insurance, retail. Look on LinkedIn and you’ll find that’s where many employees have left for.
OP
I agree with a lot of what you stated, however the support from many managers is treacherous. I have been at Chevron for 20+ years and I believe it is a great company. I like the changes in upper management that have occurred but I see many of the legacy 1st and 2nd level managers unwilling to effect changes due to fear and avoidant decision making. The forced attrition PMP process is not going to weed out the underperforming employees. The managers will retain their favorites and select the people they don’t like for termination. The best employees will leave because they can get jobs working at other places.
I agree with the first part of this statement, “Compete against yourself to be better, not against your co-worker.”
But the management has pitted people against each other to survive the PIP process. It will get worse after March 2027 when coworkers see people get PIP’d and they will know the favorite got retained and the anyone else can be next. I can see it coming in my team now.