Company has lost its long term career appeal and now people are leaving in droves #Exxodus - Process Contact Engineer ExxonMobil Employee Review

2.0
Jul 28, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Good starting pay - Great development opportunities working for a widely respected company - Good growth opportunities - Very smart and competent colleagues

Cons

- There are 10 layers of management between the entry level engineer roles and the CEO. Each one of them is further removed from the truth of what's actually going on in the company. This leads to a lot of situations where people are working on low value things just to please one of the masters. - Poor leadership in the manufacturing sites. - Extremely political. Everything is all about perception and optics. More so than other companies. - Ranking system is cuthroat and ineffective at retaining talent, causes a lot of stress

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5.0
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Pros

Flex time and really great benefits

Cons

Very competitive corporate atmosphere and little vacation days.

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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