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3.0
11 Jun 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good benefits, sick leave, pay, bonuses (when times are good), great technical staff, easy-going and friendly atmosphere when times are good, prior to current CEO Oxy had better communication and work culture

Cons

High frequency of reorganization, bloated middle management, low accountability for poor management, need to be adept in office politics to remain in favor, lack of transparency, poor professional development after early career, lack of 360 reviews, reliance on buddy system for promotions, experience at company relies heavily on senior management, low employee input, performance review system poorly implemented

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5.0
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great culture and environment. Work life balance is great.

Cons

The Pay could be better.

1.0
4 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay and good bonuses. Nothing else worth mentioning of any positive value.

Cons

At Carlsbad, NM operations 98% of professionally credentialed management and supervision have quit or been fired. The remaining management and supervision hold at best a high school diploma, and half of these people are functional alcoholics. Exceptionally poor design and execution of facilities with multiple facilities burned to the ground each quarter. Additionally, there is zero training and zero development for employees. If you're expecting quality employment with professionals this isn't the company, look elsewhere. Generally speaking OXY management, supervision, and employees hold exceptional poor ethics and morals with non-stop lying from employees, refusal to participate, and supervision lacking base knowledge. Since they've hired 99% uneducated and unskilled individuals the company culture has taken a nose dive for the worse, with expectation of several hundred additional employees quitting. Each year about half the operations group employees quit, it's literally a revolving door.

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