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Great place to work.

Communications and Design Advisor (Current Employee), Calgary, AB – April 24, 2013

Pros: free flavoured coffee in kitchens!

Cons: not always opportunities given for advancement.

Great remuneration. Great benefits. Great overall company to work for. Learning provided, flexible hours if required, good teamwork. Management can be ego driven, and advancement is limited.

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Devon needs management shake up

asset (Former Employee), calgary – April 10, 2013

Pros: steady pay no real challenge

Cons: no real future

worked for few year in the thermal side of Devon Canada.
Devon needs to send some of the mid and high level management back to school. They just know simple gas reservoir and can not handle the SAGD complexity.
devon also needs to change the simplified view of thermal projects and get to the details or stick to gas business and sell the SAGD.

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Was good company to work for but was there only there for 4 yrs. and seen high high turnover of operators.

Gas Plant operator (Former Employee), Fort St John, BC – March 13, 2013

Pros: great people to work with. give saftey as number one.

Cons: high turn over for contractors..

Start my day. Drive to my sour plant. Walk through plant. If nothing pressing go review wells on SCADA. Then do dailly books and plan day. Winter time alot of dealing with hydrates using all methods. Changing particle and coal filters. Dealt with water plant at camp..Operated turbines, wakashaws,and ajax..Taken many courses through Devon. Well and compressor – more... optimization. Trouble shooting catydines..countless saftey courses..

I enjoyed working for Devon. And recomend them as place of employemnet...If you become an employee not contractor. – less

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Good job security because there is no accountability

Operator (Former Employee), Northern Alberta – January 4, 2013

Pros: - hourly rates are very good and they are willing to spend money to fix problems

Cons: don't expect a career, it's just a job

It's so hilarious about the last commenter mentioning how hard they try to tell you - never show you - that they are the best oil company to work for, because I experienced the same thing.

My experience was that management/supervisor expectations for employee performance were very low, and in turn, they expected you to collect a paycheque without showing – more... any ambition to do more.

There is too much of an old boys club in the field; too many supervisors hiring their buddies and far too many complacent Anderson Exploration/Home Oil guys running the show. – less

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stay away, poor name in the industry

operator (Former Employee), alberta – October 18, 2012

Pros: a pay cheque, not much else.

Cons: micromanagement

- Zero trust
- I learned there are better places to work
- Poor very old school management
- Work with some good guys
- Very strange company, would always tell you how great a place it is to work, over and over. Have never had a job like that before
- Best part of the day was leaving,
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- There are much better places to work

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Boomers – January 20, 2013

Sounds like you didn't fit in with the culture. Were you fired or did you just decide to look for another job? Do you realize how tough times are for many in the US?

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Great place to work as long as you don't mind being treated with a kindergarten mentality.

Competent, hard worker. (Former Employee), Calgary – September 23, 2012

Pros: great atmosphere until 2009....then things started to get a liitle strange....very tense.

Cons: favortism, management overlooks sub par performance, more concerned if you are 5 minutes late than what is accomplished at overall.

Hmmm. Great place to work until 2009. Open door policy?...........
Hmmm.... Don't even think about rocking the boat. "Cult like" policies
and procedures. Seems they will hire anyone. There was a girl who showed up in " Hello Kitty" attire every day. Hmmm....

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Boomers – January 20, 2013

So, were you fired or did you voluntary look elsewhere? I'm always curious about the extremely negative comments, blaming the culture etc. There are avenues for change...being disgruntled is not one of them. Making suggestions through proper channels, then seeking consensus is more worth your time.

– February 26, 2013

My husband has been trying to get a job with Devon for some time now and despite his qualifications and experience, they have never even offered an interview. Why is this? Do they really have that many people applying for one position? Two of the positions he applied for were lower grade then his current position, is Devon doing some sort of hiring freeze?

nonidiot – March 12, 2013

Depends on the department you are with. I experienced supervisory management with lackluster intelligence and ambitiion. (Always looking out for their favorites, even though they are so incompetent. My direct supervisor was just looking to save his but and just putting in time. However, Manager of department was great. Intelligent and forward looking.I believe Devon is a great place to work, they just need to get rid of dead wood in some depts,

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A very good company to work with

Systems Analyst (Current Employee), Calgary, Canada – March 21, 2012

A very good company to work with. It is nice being part of the SAp implementation project at Devon.

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Compensation is Great but Require Long Days and Weekend Work

Geologist (Former Employee), Oklahoma City, OK – April 27, 2013

Pros: high compensation

Cons: lot's of overtime

I was a geologist at Devon. I had a great income with great benefits. However, at the same time, I had to earn that income by putting in extra hours each day and some weekend and overnight work was required. Overall it was a great place to work with nice people, but at times I did feel like I was just a number.

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Great company

Windows 7 Project Management Team (Contractor) (Former Employee), Oklahoma City, OK – April 2, 2013

Cons: salary

Great working environment, Culture and insane employee benefits

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Very Productive and great place to work but...

Field End User Support (Current Employee), Oklahoma City, OK – March 3, 2013

I was very productive at Devon. There was never a day when I was twiddling my fingers. Great people to work with. Unfortunately, there are some managers who should not be in their current role. Most of the managers are very knowledgeable and will go out on a limb for you. Others will just push their work on you at the last minute and really wont address – more... problems to you, rather to other people and hopefully you are in good with them to find out – less

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Great company heading in wrong direction

Land (Current Employee), Houston, TX – February 22, 2013

Pros: office in houston, texas (closing), wellness center, the people in houston

Cons: officers and directors more interested in rebuilding oklahoma city and less with shareholder value, like many companies - becoming an it and supply chain company.

Great company heading in the wrong direction;
Mergers were all about jobs for Oklahoma;
I've learned alot about the Land business;
Management was great and would try to help if possible;
The best part of my job - the co-workers / the people!

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Fun and enjoyable enviroment

Division Order Tech (Former Employee), Oklahoma City, OK – February 19, 2013

Pros: location, healthcare

Assist the Division Order Analyst in the processing of division orders and transfer orders. Maintained the department well files for each analyst.

Enjoyed my co-worker and we worked well as a team.

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Company is not interested in hiring good employees

Environmental Specialist (Current Employee), Baggs, Wyoming – February 7, 2013

Pros: don't know of any?

Cons: definately against the employee and their welfare.

This is a cold corporate environment. Potential employees have to submit to frustration during their application and management doesn't really want to be bothered. Their job description is meant to lure good people, but their application methods are demeaning and clumsy. They chase more good people away.

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nonidiot – March 12, 2013

Devon's philosophy transcends borders..

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Unrestrictive and Promotes Education

Geoscience Technologist (Former Employee), Houston, TX – January 25, 2013

Pros: 9/80 schedules; dress code; tuition reimbursement program

Cons: location;

The amazing culture of improvement at Devon was a huge plus. Training was not frowned upon at Devon. Managers encouraged employees to take a certain number of necessary courses per year. Also Devon provided reimbursement for employees that wanted to attend Universities for continual education. At times, the company even allowed for using company hours – more... to attend those courses. – less

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Time at Devon Energy

Production Accounting (Current Employee), Houston, TX – January 15, 2013

* Typical day envolves happy employees who always have smiles on their faces and are willing to help.
* I learned that it is possible to have an enjoyable work enviornment while also being able to perform reuired duties.

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Devon is among the nation's leading U.S.-based independent gas and oil producers and independent processors of natural gas and natural gas liquids in

Sr. ETL Developer (Current Employee), Oklahoma city – January 3, 2013

• Involved in gathering business requirements, helped in creating Functional Spec document and created Technical Spec/data mapping documents.
• Build ETL mappings to pull data from SAP Sources, OHD(Open Hub Destination), SQL Server, Oracle, flat files to SQL server target database.
• Designed and developed mappings with optimal performance using Aggregator, – more... Java, Joiner, Normalizer, Rank, Sequence Generator, SQL, Un-Cached & various kinds of Cached Lookup , Connected-Unconnected-Source Target pre and post load Stored Procedure Transformations ,Update Strategy , Union, XML Transformations ,etc.
• Extensive experience in mappings which include pulling data from SAP R/3, ECC sources and generating, installing ABAP program for these mappings.
• Hands on experience in creating SAP ECC transport requests for the mapping including ABAP programs.
• Extensive experience in using SAP GUI for windows and using transaction codes SE09, SE80 etc. and create Work bench requests for the ECC transport request.
• Used Normalizer Transformation to normalize data from COBOL sources and used Aggregators to De-normalize records to create one record.
• Implemented SCD methodology including Type 1, Type 2 changes to keep track of historical data.
• Used Devon home grown tool Devon ABC(Audit, Balance, control) for audit process including storing the parameter values, Event and Process Management.
• Devon ABC is used to override mapping parameter, mapping Variables, Workflow Variables, Session Parameters, Ftp Session Parameters and Source-Target Application Connection parameters.
• Extensive experience in using the Devon Data Manager for business users or some one without technological knowledge to trigger the Adhoc informatica workflows/Tidal jobs.
• Extensively used pre-session and post-session variable assignment for simulating multithreading scenarios for Load balancing and performance improvement.
• Edited different kinds of Partition points and Created partitions to improve performance by activating multiple Transformation Threads for optimal use of system resources.
• Extensive experience with Tidal Enterprise scheduler(Tidal 6.0) to create Tidal jobs for the informatica workflows to schedule the Daily Loads, Weekly Loads, Quarterly Loads and Adhoc Loads using Incremental Loading Strategy.
• Monitored the jobs daily and involved in production support including immediate fixes for the production job failures.
• Documented test case scenario’s and test plans data for the mappings developed. – less

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Good place to work with lots of challenges and potential to grow.

Senior Data Analyst (Former Employee), Houston, TX – January 1, 2013

Pros: challenging and rewarding work environment

Cons: excessive travel at times

Unfortunately, Devon has decided to close the Houston office and I did not want to relocate to Oklahoma City. I supported the Business Continuity department for the past 4 years and also supported the company as a Life Safety first responder.

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Awesome Opportunity

Process Developer (Consultant) (Former Employee), Oklahoma City, OK – December 31, 2012

Devon energy allowed me to be me. I was free to train in my style and allow me to control my class in the way I see fit. It was an awesome opportunity.

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Great Company to Work for

Sr. Systems Analyst(SA)/Business Analyst(BA) (Current Employee), Houston, TX – December 27, 2012

Pros: professional work environment

Cons: minimum for tuition reimbursement

Very good working environment.
Employees are very professional and helpful

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Shady, not able to advance, nor able to discuss things with individuals

Temp Job for records department (Former Employee), Oklahoma City, OK – December 20, 2012

Cons: was a temp position, hour lunch, did not have my own space.

A typical day at work would be to pull files research them on the various links. Than printing out a label and putting it on the files than taking them to scanning. I learned different document types. I had two very helpful co-workers. The hardest part of my job was being underestimated due to my age. The job itself was easy to learn and over all fun – more... due to the fact of researching, and being able to feel like I had accomplished a lot with the files iI had finished that very day. – less

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JosephR – January 16, 2013

He gets hired into a temporary position - then complains he can't advance. Temporary positions are . . . temporary, not part of the overall structure of an enterprise. He says he got job satisfaction and the work was "fun" (I get that) No comment about not getting paid. So - he gets hired for a temporary position which is enjoyable and he gets paid. That is actually more than you can expect from a temp position. You didn't get your own space? You are temporary. No, they are not going to realize real estate for a guy who is not going to stay. Oh, and if you want to "advance" in your next position, learn how to self edit for spelling.

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Independent oil and gas producer Devon Energy puts its energy into oil and gas fields far from England's southwestern coast, in – Read more