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Poor Ethics, Poor Morals, and Functional Alcoholics for Management - Operations Occidental Petroleum Employee Review

1.0
Jun 4, 2026
Recommend
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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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5.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great culture and environment. Work life balance is great.

Cons

The Pay could be better.

5.0
Apr 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is solid for Houston energy: roughly $150K base plus ~$45K bonus/stock for DS-level roles, with a standout ~14% employer retirement contribution (7% 401k match + 7% company contribution). Benefits, PTO, and hybrid flexibility (M/F WFH, 9/80 schedule common) are consistently praised, and Texas has no state income tax. Overall comp & benefits rating is 4.2/5 company-wide on Glassdoor, and bonus upside scales with oil-cycle performance.

Cons

Base pay for ML/computational roles trails top-of-market (FAANG, quant, AI-first firms), and Houston DS employees specifically rated comp 1/5 on Glassdoor — suggesting pay compression or slow raises relative to market. Career progression is reportedly slow, with employees citing 12-year waits for promotion and salaries held toward the low end of the band. Bonus/LTI are tied to oil prices, so comp is cyclical, and recent layoffs tied to the OxyChem sale and debt-reduction push have made job security feel less certain than at integrated majors like XOM or CVX.

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