ExxonMobil reviews

Personnel system is abysmal. The company uses a very archaic method of evaluating employee performance based upon intangible parameters. Too much responsibility and power for shaping employees' career paths is given to management, with too little communication with employees as to where they see themselves moving in the company. An HR representative told me that 50% of new hires in the company leave within their first 5 years. Also, management is often more concerned with short-term goals and their own performance rankings rather than providing leadership and support to their subordinates or thinking about the future of the company.

Clandestine management decisions, including career choices, "command and control"-style management, inconsistency (we need new ideas, but can't get beyond year-2000 thinking), low-level leadership panics due to overbearing (and out-of-touch) senior management, lack of vision, lack of stated goals, lack of communication, management immune from hearing feedback from employees due to forced ranking, conducted by supervisors needing the feedback, that determines ones employment status from year to year -- because retribution is always a possibility, despite the controlled nature of the process.