ExxonMobil reviews

The demoralizing effect of the forced ranking system. Only 10 - 20% of the managers over the course of my career have expressed a genuine interest in employee development. For the other 80 - 90%, I have encountered everything from indifference around employee development, an unwillingness to share important performance results (like a drop in ranking without an explanation other than "tough rank list"), and a punitive approach to frank discussions on managing business risks. For individuals that drop in the annual ranking, it can take years for an employee to find out about the drop. Meanwhile the behaviors that supposedly facilitated the drop cannot be corrected, and employee frustration builds following the reduced frequency and magnitude of salary treatments.

Beware: extreme stress and pressure. As a fresh graduate I was facing severe burnout and depression after one year of working there and needed to quit. As an ecologically mindful person, I feel the company does not do enough in order to reduce its impact on the environment. The employees are taken as numbers, just mere resources and not human and sensitive beings. I was profoundly unhappy, the company wants to have a well functioning machine without any innovative and creative thinking. Plus you work in cubicles, you feel constantly watched, evaluated, no privacy at all. If you are introvert you are going to hate it. This company is a big no no no for most of the people (though may appeal to merciless extrovert and egoistic sharks). Also technologically outdated.