intern

senior accountant

associate analyst

director of regulatory affairs

Cheniere Energy

Cheniere Energy holds a strong presence in the LNG market, with operations that are central to U.S. energy exports. However, behind the company’s market success lies an internal culture—particularly within gas scheduling—that is marked by serious dysfunction and mismanagement.

The gas scheduling team operates in a high-pressure environment made worse by toxic leadership. Management is often aggressive and confrontational rather than constructive, creating a culture of fear rather than collaboration. Constructive feedback is rare; instead, blame-shifting and public criticism are common. Leadership routinely demonstrates poor communication skills and a lack of understanding of day-to-day scheduling challenges.

Favoritism is another consistent issue—certain individuals are given latitude to underperform or behave unprofessionally while others are held to inconsistent standards. This uneven accountability erodes team morale and discourages excellence.

Work-life balance is practically nonexistent. Long hours are expected, with little regard for personal boundaries, and there is a pervasive culture of guilt associated with using PTO or prioritizing life outside of work. Burnout is common, and there is little to no support from management in mitigating it.

Talented individuals either leave voluntarily or are quietly pushed out. New hires often arrive unprepared and unsupported, which further exacerbates the operational strain. Within the industry, Cheniere is increasingly seen as a revolving door for schedulers, and its reputation among professionals has suffered accordingly.

In summary, while Cheniere’s external brand reflects success and market strength, the internal experience for gas scheduling professionals tells a very different story—one defined by poor leadership, favoritism, toxic culture, a lack of work-life balance, and unsustainable turnover. Candidates considering this role should proceed with caution and be prepared for a challenging and often thankless environment.


Cheniere provides a good work environment with generous benefits and salary. They also offer a full work load that is difficult to complete in the allotted time. The work is overwhelming and the man power to accomplish it is not there. This makes it stressful amongst fellow employees. I have a given ability to prioritize by job importance and am able to support  the crew on a tight time frame.
We all appreciate a break through out the day but are satisfied just to be able to clock out at the end of our shift. Overtime has become mandatory creating job stress for everyone. In an ordinary situation this workplace would be fun and energizing, but lack of hands on deck has decreased the enjoyment. Management has become stressed too. Where there used to be an open door policy to come in and chat has subsided. Its been a great learning experience as far as honing my skills but it would be appreciated to leave after my 10 hour shift. If Cheniere would staff according to the work load it would bring back the comradely that use to exist there.

What is the best part of working at the company?
This is the kind of place that if you work real hard,you get to do your job and someone else's too. Management promotes and rewards bad behavior and work ethics. Too many chief's and not enough Indians. They hire people straight out of Del Mar instead of experienced operators. Operators still have to train new people eventhough we have a training department. Money and bonuses are good other than that Cheniere sucks.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with management and office personnel. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Watch your back, nobody's your friend. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I try to hide out as much as possible, so I don't get in the line of fire from management.

Cheniere Energy was a great company to work for back in 2013-2015. There have been a lot of changes with VP's retiring and restructuring that have left the company in limbo. With the lack of policies and procedures employees are left thinking if Cheniere will be bought out by another company. There is a lot of disfunction within this company and upper management refuses to give real direction on key issues that would help organized the company. For instance creating a transparent organizational chart and defining everyones roles and responsibilities. Working for this company is extremely stressful and I would say 7-10 people are dis-satisfied with management. I would not recommend this company.

As a fresh student coming in as an intern trying to learn I was immediately thrown in and sat down in an office and had to practically beg operators to follow them to learn something. After 1month of doing that I get a phone call on my day off stating I had been removed from the internship program randomly. This company as a whole definitely lacks diversity and it’s honestly my fault for thinking it would being as though it’s in Cameron parish and about 80% of the resident men work there. This job and internship was a J O K E ! By all means though apply and go through the interview process Get hired and make your own judgement call but that was MY experience. My expectations for this company was to high and that’s my fault being the shade that I am. 

They tolerate poor behavior from
Mid level management and don’t take employee concerns/complaints seriously.  They don’t practice what they preach and don’t have any flexibility with remote work.  There is a poor culture that is driven by their longest term employees who feel a sense of entitlement and untouchable.   They won’t make the hard decisions to eliminate people that create negativity, instead they push the good people out.   Turnover is regular which means you are always in a state of transition.   It’s peculiar that the higher level management team allows these behaviors to persist. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The building and facilities are very nice.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Political maneuvering and gossiping about others is prevalent even up to the Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The environment is neutral - neither overly friendly nor completely sterile. The company culture is sublimely political that requires gamesmanship to be successful. The company lacks genuine community and care.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Meetings, email, working on deliverables... repeat.

Job required someone who is extremely organized and task orenited, so  duties can be prioritized allowing for interruptions with urgent items that need special attention.
At the end of each day and at the end of each week I prioritized my duties for the following day or week using a Franklin calendar to keep records of activities.
Provided direction to engineering team and construction leadership responsibilities completing short-term and long-term oil and gas unit  projects for delivery to operations.
Reviewed drawing packages provided by construction design engnieering team and issued comments for teview and revision.

The other departments seem to be running great or was when I was there. However, the facilities team was not a department you’d want to be in. It was a team of all women, at that time, who were not a key model of collaboration. There were women who’d take over the cream of the crop responsibilities and leave the not so cream of the crop to others. Seniority rules this team. It’s not equal tasks/responsibilities throughout despite having the same or similar job position. If you’re a temp employee then be aware of the facilities department and keep your guard up. Hopefully their team culture has changed since then.

When I started working at Cheniere, I was excited to be joining a small company that was about to grow rapidly, but needed to mature organizationally.
 Unfortunately, the company's mid- and senior-level management in the various departments had developed a 'silo' mentality and it became difficult, if not impossible, to effect change.

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