I watched the XYZ interview with these folks. Why are we sending people to MIT when we don't train our own software engineers to competence?
That one geoscientist was so full of himself. Very unlikable and full of it. Everything was "me, me, me". Brown-nose much? Wait, I thought we sent you to MIT to help the enterprise? Disgusting.
it's not a war on continuing education. it's the extra flare that they add to this. chevron has always had an excellent continuing education benefit. this is just too much for something that is not special. the amount of consultants involved with this production is just pure waste.
Not surprising that people on a web site with vehement anti-science views would be against continuing education opportunities. The right wing’s war on education rages on.
Which video? Is it on workplace?
It’s not a bad thing to ensure we develop our own people.
Because we’re desperate.
I have nothing against the digital scholars because it's a great perk to get a free education while getting paid a regular salary plus bonus. However, what a JOKE of a program this is... You could say that maybe Chevron can't get the MIT grads through normal recruiting and maybe sending people there is worth it. (I disagree.) But expanding it to Rice is absolutely negative ROI. We bring them back into these roles that make no sense. We don't even have a problem recruiting Rice MS students just through regular university hiring. Why pay all this money for our existing employees to do this when you can just hire on a Rice student at PSG 20/21 for much cheaper?
And there's a digital scholar re-integration back to Chevron event today. It's 2 days worth of presentations and discussions on HOW to utilize these people when they return. What a joke. Do we have this kind of onboarding for our university hires who just came on and got a JOB to do? Why do we need to teach supervisors and managers how to help digital scholars re-integrate back into Chevron when they've only been gone 9-12 months? I understand protecting the investment since we spent all the unnecessary dollars on these employees, but WHY. How many jobs could we have saved by not sending these employees to a school where we have had success recruiting from the same degree program? Of all the things that the CEO is known for (downstream guy, cares about the margins, all about cost cutting) -- this is the most wirthless idea of all. Enormous waste of money. RE-integration... wow, what a joke.
I heard that there was a layoff site on here where they discuss layoff topics and people answer questions & stuff. Not a pathetic butthurt loser complaints site. Does anyone know what happened to that site?
“Why are we sending people to MIT when we don't train our own”... don’t or can’t... sort of answered your own question.
Not so wirthless to the individuals who attain the degree. As for the relevance to layoffs? well, they are immune at least for 5 years until the bond is paid off - a better position than the rest of us.
Agreed with Jng, Chevron can not compete with google, Facebook and other tech giants. That was the exact reason of establishing the digital scholar program. Just face it, none of the folks who posted here graduated from top elite schools and stayed here unless you are 26 and above. If you are, you have a problem, Houston.
I think I know which geoscientist you are talking about. He is the worst.
Chevron tried hiring at MIT but got nowhere. You would have to be a complete MIT dropout to take a job at Chevron. There are infinitely better jobs all over the country for MIT grads with significantly higher pay, benefits and job satisfaction.
Agreed. These ‘scholars’ come back now with half-baked technical backgrounds and a year of East Coast brainwashing. Perfect for the D&I crowd. One year in Cambridge means they know the trendy jargon, but still no experience. These are all disguised high-pots, shuttling them to MIT means they didn’t have to go through the ROM process, and will be nicely dropped into management positions without having to compete for them.
Agree. Why wouldn’t CVX just hire MIT grads and/or people who have that skillset already?
Agreed, was garbage from what I heard during the session.
Sounds like someone didn’t get selected for the program ... wah wah wah
Is this a layoffs topic. WTF?