Occidental Petroleum Geologist reviews

Geoscience and engineering staffing is too lean in most assets, and upper management doesn’t understand how stressed out we are due to workload. HR always seems to be fully staffed though :/ There’s a huge disconnect between how HR says performance evaluations, raises, and promotions work and how those things actually work. I can’t tell if they’re truly that disconnected from reality, or just pretending to be oblivious. Raises are harder to come by since the Anadarko acquisition. Promotions happen faster for those who are buddies with the right managers. It seems like every time an individual contributor gets promoted to being a people manager, the hiring decision makers completely disregard whether that person has any people skills. Sometimes it feels like they deliberately choose the candidate who is most likely to be a poor manager. The total compensation package is below average for the industry, but Oxy isn’t as quick to lay people off every time oil prices dip, so at least there’s that.

It is a large public company therefore it is slow to the punch