ExxonMobil reviews

Exxon uses the old "forced stack ranking" method for employee assessment. Your time there is like playing in one of the survivor games on television. A certain number of people will be fired every year Every employee is ranked in salary grade and a percentage will be fired every year. Thank former GE President Jack Welch for this idea. It has been the ruin of most of America's industries for a long time now. If Exxon hired 100 Nobel Laureates for a project, after a short while, half of them would be considered "below average." It all comes from a basic misunderstanding of statistics caused by sampling bias. Interns and short-term employees will not see this, but as you hold a job longer, it becomes a superb way to get rid of older, better-paid employees.

Rating and ranking of employees (EADS) was based less on your abilities and more on how good your manager was and whether or not they would go to bat for you as a good employee. Employees are overworked and expected to put in 50+ hours a week. Taking vacation is officially encouraged, but in practice discouraged, except for the last two weeks of the year. US employees have to pick up the slack for international employees. The company is too restrictive in it's practices and is entirely too risk adverse. That means that you will have to fill out a risk assessment for all projects regardless of their value. Expect to carry your blackberry 24/7 and expect to get in trouble if you don't answer an email on a Sunday morning within 10 minutes of getting it.