Good benefits and work / life balance - Design Engineer Chevron Employee Review

4.0
Jan 18, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

9/80 schedule, get hours you can use towards vacation if you are asked to work overtime, pension, given a lot of responsibility and challenging problems when you start. I came from college and was already leading large projects shortly after arriving. Can move to different positions within the company fairly easily.

Cons

Old school corporation. Moving up the ladder is slow and pay increases are the same. I didn't use much of the technical skills I learned during my Mechanical Engineering degree. People who underperform stay in the company; they rarely get rid of people who don't pull their weight.

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5.0
Jun 19, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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