ExxonMobil reviews

The atmosphere is "command and control". Information about your career is on a need-to-know basis and you don't need to know. The words "...up to and including termination" are used continuously in connection with relatively minor infractions of rules. The HR leaders have no clue how to create a corporate environment where people want to work for the company. The Mobil side of ExxonMobil was lightyears ahead in this aspect but the merger seems to have gone completely with the Exxon style in this area. The company is actively working to move jobs to low cost centers in other countries. If your job can be done from any site then it's only a matter of time before it is moved to a place where someone will do it for a fraction of the typical US saleries.

There are downsides to working for any large corporation but they are blatantly clear in Exxon. The corporation is very slow change to meet the changing priorities of the younger employees. A forced ranking system is in effect for all professional employees which breeds discontent as even if an employee is performing at a very high level the employee can still be ranked at the very bottom....and being ranked at the very bottom means that salary increases are less and less frequent. As far as I can tell, people in the bottom 20% get raises about every 20 - 22 months at the rate of of inflation if not less. The company does not offer an alternate work schedule and management will not even entertain the idea for their professional employees. The overall culture of Exxon breeds managers who place morale very low on the priority list and treats the employees as if they were interchangable with anyone off the street. There also does not seem to be any clue about family and work balance. If by chance a people friendly manager does come about that person typically ends up in low middle management and does not go farther than that.