Based on 19 surveyed graduates working at Chevron Australia. Read on to get an insider’s view on life as a graduate.
4.3
Based on 19 reviews
Pros & Cons
Many opportunities to get on-site at the Wheatstone and Gorgon facilities to experience the sheer size of an LNG processing facility first hand.
Flexible working hours, great work-life balance interesting and challenging work.
The people are very friendly, helpful and welcoming. It makes it easy to learn and make mistakes as a new graduate. Similarly, development opportunities are supported and encouraged.
Great pay, friendly colleagues, huge training budget, 9-day fortnight,
Good focus on work/life balance. Flexible work options available, usually 2 days working from home and 3 days in the office per week. Standard 9-day fortnight for all employees (so a long weekend every other weekend). Very supportive work culture, and my team is great.
Association with the oil and gas industry.
The community of relatively young people that you can work with or relate with is very small. The recruitment size of graduates is miniscule which means that there is very low interaction between graduates as they are spread out in different departments or are on-site.
The company is quite large so it can be difficult to navigate at times. But there are plenty of people that are willing/able to help you out.
Teaming across time zones in different countries makes scheduling meetings hard and in person impossible. Early and late starts.
It's a very big company (there's pros to that as well), which means there's a lot regulations about how to do specific tasks. This can mean that getting access to the information needed to do each part of the job can be challenging and take more time than expected. There's a tendency towards "one-size-fits-all" solutions in the IT space, that might not make sense in all cases.
What Insiders Say
7.3
Career Prospects
7.3
Career Prospects
There's opportunity to progress in purely technical roles as well as opportunity to progress into management type roles. It's all competency based, rather than time based, so if you can demonstrate competency in an area you don't need to wait out a certain time period to progress.
Very positive environment, strong Operational Excellence culture, highly value diversity and inclusion, honest and integrity with a focus on supporting community and the environment.
Very committed. There is a number of employee networks which enable you to meet a diverse range of people and discuss diversity and help break down barriers.
I'm really impressed with what I've seen of management within the business in terms of how they treat the people around them and make time for people. Praise and recognition are something that I think is done really well by both managers and colleagues, and there's a bunch of different formal systems for it within the business.
Chevron sponsors community events, has volunteering days, helps development communities in which our operations are based, are committed to reducing carbon emissions through new energy projects including carbon capture and sequestration.
You can elect for work 8-5 instead of 8-4 in exchange for every second Friday off work! Options to work from home Mondays and Fridays with flexibility to work from home as needed.