Pros
- Working on amazing projects with great people around the world. - Well paid (but completely took away 401(k) match). - Given somewhat of an autonomy to lead and make big decisions even when you are not a manager. - Until COVID, a world-class career development path, especially with regard to training. - Until COVID, you could expect to have multiple careers within the same company.
Cons
- CEO hid under a rock during the most strenuous time of the company's history, then laying off thousands after repeatedly reassuring us there will be no layoffs. Not to mention the fake layoffs in July 2020 (PIPs). - Forced ranking....ugh...excuse me...I meant the "new" performance assessment system (ranking is a taboo term now to make us believe that something actually changed for the better). The infamous forced ranking at ExxonMobil will never get enough criticism. If you're on a technical track, prepare to be the pedestal for everyone in the management track to step over you. You can Google the ExxonMobil layoff forum and read some of the sentiments that people share. I certainly relate to them a lot. Too much to explain here. - Complete lack of empathy, transparency, and most importantly truth from senior (and many times junior) management. They're very good at speaking fluff language given to them by expensive management consultants. - The epitome of corporate America and capitalism. Complete disregard to the communities in which we do work as well as our employees. We will do whatever it takes to get the biggest piece of the pie. I recommend you read on our involvement with Guyana and how our top 4 executives gave themselves a nice bonus the day they laid off thousands in Dec 2020. - No logical long-term or short-term strategy. Basically doubling down on what we've been doing this whole time. - Spending money on algae because it looks good in ads (but it really doesn't because everyone knows we're greenwashing). - Still speaking like we're the best in the industry and that we hire the best. This is self-explanatory. This was the world's largest corporation just in 2013...while Tesla's market cap was barely $5B....enough said. - Being in denial about the paradigm shift happening in the energy industry and the world as a whole. - Being super top heavy and operating like the Soviet Union, instilling fear into the common folk. Anyone who dares to speak up will be PIPed, especially in the new ranking system that took away the threshold of how much you can drop in one assessment cycle. - Taking way too long to properly respond to COVID, particularly internally. They had us back on campus in May 2020!! - The longer you stay her the more incompetent you become (except in PowerPoint engineering of course)! This is because we depend on outside contractors to do the actual work while we boss them and each other around. - There's much more unfortunately, but I'll stop here.
