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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1.0
Sep 22, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Every year you will be ranked. Good rank your are ok. Bottom ranked high possibility you will get Performance Improvement Plan which is basically a constructive dismissal process.

Cons

Managers & Supervisors will only talk but will not do anything. Every year their main job is to find a candidate to be put in the bottom basket (NI/NSI) so that the can asked them to leave the company

3.0
Sep 12, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good starting pay for fresh graduates and with ExxonMobil in your CV, it will open plenty of opportunities for you should you decide to exit the company. - Young and vibrant workforce, typically very friendly and helpful. - Plenty of training and self-learning opportunities. You will have plenty of opportunities to optimise and improvise. Good if you like to think outside the box. Lots of chances to improve your technical competency. - High chances of traveling to refineries for further on-the-job training (OJT) depending on your role with each engineer given a corporate card. Generous allowance for business trip spending. - Relatively good benefits (medical coverage, flexible working hours, monetary rewards for outstanding performance). - Lots of fun activities all year long over at KLTC that you can participate in such as subsidised island/overseas trips, fun runs/marathons, community outreach programmes, career days, team building, raya/CNY celebrations etc. - If you are a high performer, you may get opportunities for overseas assignments for around 1-3 years. - The Malaysian office observes all public holidays relevant to the state the office is in. If the public holiday is on Saturday, you will get Friday off, and if it is on Sunday, you will get Monday off. Early release (2pm) on the day before major public holidays like CNY/Raya. If you have to work on a public holiday, you may take another day off as a replacement.

Cons

- High workload with a very steep learning curve. Sites are either European/North American so you'll end up having pretty late-night calls frequently. - The type of work is repetitive and time-consuming, lots of fire-fighting. If you can't manage time well, this is not for you. - Very competitive with unusually cut-throat performance assessment (forced ranking with around 10% being PIP-ed due to "relative performance" to your peers). - Related to the above, you have to really fight for visibility. You're only at the top because someone is below you. - Requires good communication and negotiating skills as you will need to lead a lot of effort and meetings as well as deal with clients (sites you are supporting). - Starting to restrict WFH days, so pretty much have to work 100% in the office even if most of your work is literally remote work (but you can flex your day). Literally taking attendance, but never tell you the number of days you actually need to come in so you might get caught out and be called to management. - Gossip culture is very strong in this company, even supervisors participate in this openly.

2.0
Feb 2, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- the PEOPLE, you do get the chance to work with/meet amazing and talented people from all over the world - Very nice, gorgeous, modern, world class campus with a lot of amenties (but mostly worth it for the feel that you work at a 'fancy' corporate company) - if you're lucky - nice 1st level supervisors - your mileage may vary

Cons

- salary for software engineer positions is more aligned with IT jobs (i.e. analyst) vs. actual engineering/tech jobs, too low for industry - due to low SWE staffing levels or bad management choices, many SWEs are asked/voluntold to do the workload of multiple positions/people with no pay raise - company's COVID response was pretty lacking and kept trying to bring employees back to office at unsafe times - little to no career advancement opportunities (i.e. promotions) unless you're willing to sacrifice your work life balance and work all the time - plenty of toxic behaviors and personalities encouraged by the archaic,stress inducing and morale breaking ranking system - management places an unbalanced weight on what the company needs vs. your career goals/needs when placing you as a new hire and even for subsequent assignments if you're not on top of your manager - if you get unlucky and get placed in a team that was not one of your top choices and/or where you can't perform 100% due to lacking the necessary abilities, management stubbornly won't move you no matter how many times you request it via the appropriate channels - if you ask for a promotion/raise, even if you deserve it and your manager agrees, nothing can be done in the short term and you have to wait for performance evaluation season

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