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Occidental Petroleum

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Management needs to change - Automation Technician Occidental Petroleum Employee Review

2.0
5 May 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Salary is decent. Local culture is ok. Pay is fair

Cons

Management is completely disconnected Managers are now mostly from other countries and don't understand our culture or customs here in the U.S. but expect the American employees to be sensitive to their culture. Management is now making employees load tracking apps on their personal cellphones. No room for movement. People are promoted based on social skills not on job based knowledge or skill sets. This company recognizes 2 year engineering degrees from 3rd world countries as engineering degrees comparable to 4 year engineering degrees in the U.S. 2 year degrees from the U.S. are largely discounted and do not help advancement. Any kind of B.S. degree that does not have the word engineering in the title is discounted and will not grant an employee petro pay. Mechanical and Civil engineers are hired as automation engineers and take care of all critical programs in major facilities when they have no background of software engineering or coding practices. Safety is often overlooked to make sure facilities and wells go online as scheduled.

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5.0
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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