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Occidental Petroleum

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Salary slashed, Sinking Company, HORRIBLE! - Engineer Occidental Petroleum Employee Review

1.0
Mar 26, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

9/80 schedule, nice bonuses once paid

Cons

If anyone is leaving positive feedback about this company AFTER the acquisition, then they're lying. Layoffs and company morale is at an all time low. The purchase of Anadarko was the worst deal in history! Just recently they slashed all benefits and reduced our salaries by 30%! People that used to manage schedules are now managers because of rampant nepotism within the company.

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5.0
Jun 9, 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
Jun 4, 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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