ExxonMobil reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(8,435 total reviews)
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Darren Woods

62% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

ExxonMobil has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 8,435 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
Jan 5, 2021
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Pros

- Above-average compensation for 'IT professionals'* - Benefits were** great - Very cool looking campus - Very good work-life balance (great place to collect a paycheck and do barely anything); if you are a high-performer you could easily get away with doing ~10 hours of work a week (this is due to managers having no clue what their subordinates actually do) *IT professional =/= Software Engineer; below-average salary for SWE ** 401k match was cut as a part of the 2020 budget slash. Won't be back for years

Cons

- No standardization when it comes to technical projects - Little to no technical career development (HR/Management has been working on this for decades and they are still terrible at it) - SWEs are not respected; if you want to be a good software engineer, management sees you as no different than the contractor/consultant developer spewing spaghetti code - Management would rather offshore work to the cheapest bidder than investing in training their own employees to build decent solutions, then give us the spaghetti output to maintain - Managers haven't touched code in over a decade; absolute terrible understanding of technical projects - Nobody is an expert due to Exxon's insane 'company knows you better than you know yourself so we're forcing you into a new role every 2 years' policy, leading to massive info gaps and half-completed projects being passed along to newbies - Little to no care for proper software architecture due to the previous point, meaning hard to maintain solutions that perform poorly and are built to fail

1.0
Dec 29, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The CEO received a 25% annual pay increase ($975k) while 15% of the workforce was released.

Cons

They convince you that you’re a valued employee and encourage a competitive environment among colleagues. This is NOT a company you want to wor for. XOM has layed off employees with 20 plus years of service and consistent high rankings with no remorse nor explanation. If you think you will be treated differently then you are sadly mistaken.

3.0
Dec 5, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A lot of opportunities, educational matching program (if you donate to your university, 3:1 match for years, changed to 2:1 in 2019 but wonderful program and much appreciated), very structured and thorough work processes, well compensated with good benefits, wonderful colleagues, great technical information available and a lot of teamwork opportunities, incredible safety culture and safety performance, good "extra curricular" activities like networks, recruiting

Cons

Culture = some locations have a very uptight/all business work culture that is very tough for certain personality types. The ranking system is terrible in many ways: it makes people afraid of disagreement with management, it makes people focused on pleasing their bosses vs. performing their jobs to their best ability (those might sound like they align but they don't align in significant ways), fear of failure, downplaying/hiding failures, people will help each other but general "head down, self focus" is encouraged vs. being more altruistic and improving others vs. yourself. Lack of transparency (especially in 2020 regarding changes in performance evaluation that resulted in a larger number than typical colleagues being dismissed for performance issues, people felt this was a "disguised layoff", it probably was all above board but lack of transparency about the change led educated rational people to jump to the "disguised layoff" conclusion so I would say there is something base case wrong with perception of management). People in higher level management feel unapproachable and you need to run ideas up the chain.

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