ExxonMobil reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(8,432 total reviews)
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Darren Woods

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
1.0
Sep 10, 2021
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Pros

1. Great benefits, decent pay (albeit behind tech salaries) — the money goes far in Houston. 2. A nice campus.

Cons

1. A complete lack of leadership. ExxonMobil’s “leaders” are “managers” at best, but not leaders. 2. A catastrophic history of multi-billion dollar investments that all failed, one after another. 3. A general unwillingness to change due to an arrogance of “being the best in business” — even if that was 10+ years ago. Even then, ExxonMobil was mistaking correlation with causality — their success then was despite their actions, not because of them. 4. A culture of fear. 5. Stacked rankings. 6. Overall, the work is mostly entirely meaningless and without any impact. This is not something you’ll want to tell your grandchildren about. 7. 90% of decision are made in Dallas, Houston and all other small offices are just there to push paper. 8. Technologically, the company is stuck in the early 2000s.

1.0
Aug 8, 2020

Machiavellian

Recommend
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Pros

They hired a few people during the 2015 downturn when other companies weren't

Cons

You are a tool for company profit and they don't even try to hide it -Many people I know have had workplace injuries and were instructed to push through the pain because there job depends on it despite the fact they were so severely hurt they couldn't do normal daily activities like drive a car or lift a glass of water -If you don't have kids, be prepared for everyone to assume you belong to the company 24/7 -They disguise layoffs as performance reviews so that they don't have to announce publicly that they are holding layoffs -Team members and formally assigned mentors will try to stab you in the back if it will help them at all in the ranking process -As a new hire, my assigned mentor actively tried to take away some of my assigned work because he wanted to be able to claim that work on his annual performance review -Darren (CEO) loves the system because it worked for him and defends the system with an anecdote about his first role as a supervisor where he clashed with one of his direct reports and forced her out. A year later, she called him up and told him that leaving ExxonMobil was the best thing she had done in her entire life. Therefore, the current system is great

1.0
Jul 23, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Campus is nice - Pay is relatively competitive (however, as a software engineer, you may be better off going to a tech company)

Cons

- Upper management does not care about lower level employees. The way COVID was handled was very poor (not notifying campus residents of new cases, telling us in March to be prepared to return at any time). No transparency about any important situations. - Technical staff (mainly software developers) have absolutely no career path - No work-life balance. Because Exxon has let go of a large portion of staff and almost every contractor, regular employees are now expected to fill massive holes. - Job security = gone. While I retained my job in this ranking cycle, I know several new hires who were let go after being given no negative feedback throughout the year. Job security was one of the biggest pros for accepting a job at Exxon - it no longer exists - No emphasis on diversity. Any statements the CEO or other executives released are generic.

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