Great Company - Senior Project Engineer ExxonMobil Employee Review

4.0
Jan 1, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

I've spent all my career in the Upstream, I've heard Downstream and Chemicals can be quite different: Excellent pay and benefits, including pension Lots of challenging assignments Frequently move to different positions Many international assignments for those that want it Excellent early career training and career development tracks / planning

Cons

New assignments and assignment locations are decided without enough input from employee Rankings are not transparent and often lead to bad attitudes by lower rankers Work/life balance can be very challenging; those that want to rank high typically work a lot of hours Moving up the ranks within the company requires willingness to frequently relocate which can be difficult for those with families

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ExxonMobil Response
12y
Thanks for the feedback. We have a number of great workplace flexibility programs to help balance work and life without requiring the structure of the 9/80 program.

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5.0
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Pros

Great people and culture - Everyone is nice and wants to do good work.

Cons

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4.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Great all around compensation - from salary, benefits (401k & pension & flexible work], medical [fantastic] Great people - at the company you understand everyone around is came from being one of the smartest people at their previous job/university. Within IT the overwhelming majority of people really care for you, this feels way more collaborative than competitive. Career Development - lots of opportunities to grow in breadth of experience to get deep in your skills and grow in leadership skills

Cons

Work Politics - being such a large corporation with a lot of history there is a tendency to be work politics/red tape sheerly because of the size of the company. However, it is not really bad if you are willing network , put yourself out there to talk with leaders, and be a normal hard-working enjoyable employee. If you do these two things you will succeed at ExxonMobil.

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