Safety conscious but slow growth - Anonymous employee Chevron Employee Review

3.0
Jan 7, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Integrated work environment where you get to work with operations, engineers, chemists, logistics all in one unified team. Casual dress or safety uniform. Committed to the safety of their employees. Every other Friday off to try and keep work life balance. You will have a stable job for awhile if you work at Chevron Oronite (downstream division of Chevron).

Cons

There are not very many opportunities for vertical growth in the company. A lot of people move laterally within the company and if you become a manager then you've been there a minimum of 10 years. Often times an obvious solution to fix an issue has been suggested for a long time but corporate is more focused on fixing the short term issue. It really takes a village to make any decision or recommendation for anything to change.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 26, 2026
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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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