ExxonMobil reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(8,432 total reviews)
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61% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

ExxonMobil has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 8,432 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ExxonMobil employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energía, minería e infraestructura pública industry (3.7 stars).

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8K reviews
3.0
Aug 9, 2018
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Pros

You get a lot of really great experience. You meet a lot of very intelligent people. You get to travel quite a bit if you're willing to do so.

Cons

Exxon Drilling expects a lot out of you if you work there. If you are not a white male with a stay at home wife, it will be very hard for you to succeed specifically in Drilling. None of the minorities stay longer than 5 years and very few females stay in drilling. It's seen as a nuisance if you take time off to have kids or need to pick up your children because you're in a dual career relationship. All the men I worked with had stay at home wives that took care of all personal things while the men could dedicate themselves to their career. Most of the men then don't know how to work with women in the office because fundamentally they believe women should be at home caring for their men and children. It's very frat boy mentality. I was once told to be more "vanilla" at work. Majority of "drillers" are going to be hardcore Republicans that expect everyone else to be as well. Don't even think you'll get 9/80's or 4/10's with Exxon Drilling US. They may have that in Canada or other parts of the world but if you're based in Houston, you will NEVER get that. Bottom line: drilling is an operationally driven department and if you're not willing to dedicate your life to working long hours and relocating your family every 3-5 years to different parts of the world, you should go somewhere more work life balance friendly.

2.0
Oct 19, 2015

Bad Culture

Recommend
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Pros

- You get paid very well - You can usually stay employed there for life if you want to and are competent in your job - The medial and 401k benefits are hard to beat.

Cons

- Very hostile workplace culture. The ranking system for engineers makes everyone very competitive and unwilling to assist their coworkers. - Your coworkers don't feel "like family". People don't look out for each other. - You are expected to work ridiculous hours in most engineering positions. If you have endeavors outside of work that take up significant amounts of time, this isn't the company for you.

2.0
Oct 30, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- most of the colleagues are awesome to work with - global workforce exposure - some of the managers are great mentors for life

Cons

If you are your bosses favorite, you will be provided with all the opportunities. There is a lot of biases in place - there is an Indian American lady expat in ExxonMobil IT who is extremely manipulative providing opportunities to people she likes and others are penalized if they ask questions to the management. The worst part is the assessment period where most of the times the manager representing you does not even know the work you have done and is the sole person responsible for your ranking in the company for that year. Most of the Indian managers are a nightmare where they are not integrated with the ExxonMobil culture and treat their team members very badly. They themselves are not sure as to what they are doing and again they are suppose to provide clarity to the team members in their career growth. In terms of compensation - the existing employees are paid very less compared to new people they are hiring. The most shocking part is that campus hires are paid more than lateral hires in the company. Inclusion and diversity is just there for the sake of existing - if you can't dwell with a team member because of difference of opinions, you are targeted and especially if it is a male dominated team. ExxonMobil was a great place to work couple of years back in India, now it is getting toxic day by day

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