Exxon Mobil Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Exxon Mobil full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – If you are willing to work hard and smart, you will be rewarded. The culture is tough, but manageable if you are a driven and self-starting employee. You also have the opportunity to be placed in challenging assignments across many lines of business and areas expertise without changing companies.

Cons – Ranking system is often portrayed as a negative; however, I would prefer the controlled and measured ranking system to having 1 person determine my promotions and career path. Relocation opportunities are often presented with little notice or flexibility.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Exxon Mobil full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Career development
Challenges
Exceptional caliber of colleagues
Retirement plan

Cons – Work like a dog many times. But you'll get a bone for it.
Must be willing to relocate, on short notice

Advice to Senior Management – Diversify in order to ensure a viable future for the company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Exxon Mobil full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good. Stable job.good colleagues. Work is very challenging in the beginning, but slowly gets better with experience. Good work life balance

Cons – The progression is very slow. Very steady, but not as challenging as what I expected. Overall a stable job, not many opportunities

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Exxon Mobil full-time for less than a year

Pros – High safety standard
Good benefits, salary and bonuses.

Cons – Culture would have to improve to ensure that young technician can learn on the job with guidance provided by the seniors instead of having blind expectations for someone new.
Eliminate the rank system which can be biased
Team spirit and more team bonding session is required.
Standardization across sites

Advice to Senior Management – Exposure to variation job scope so as to develop talents of technicians.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Exxon Mobil full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Travel, sophistication of clients and collegues, and best in class in house law department.

Cons – Centrally planned organization with very little employee input into career progression. Top down forced ranking and evaluaton model (no 360's) which is unlikely to change.

Advice to Senior Management – Might be useful to occaisionally seek input from line counsel into how to improve the department.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Exxon Mobil full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Well skilled employees
Constant drive for improvement
Large Capital Projects
Job Security

Cons – Large company - bureaucratic
Slow to make changes

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Exxon Mobil full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good pay & benefits.
Depending on assignment, good co-workers.

Cons – Forced ranking process, completely depends on "who you know."
Black-box job assignment process - attempting to apply directly for a position is a no-no.
Management gives lipservice to work/life balance, but only promotes extended seat-warmers. Therefore, high hours = high performance (a strict performance comparison is apparently just too difficult).
"Nanny" safety policies - must hold handrails on stairs, etc.

Advice to Senior Management – Lose the ranking system. At best, it ensures the best butt-kissers get promoted. At worst, it encourages a short-sighted culture, since prior years are ignored. This is why there are so many projects that look good on paper, but afterwards turn out to be useless, or worse. Even pro-ranking experts seem to agree that it only works for a couple of years.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Exxon Mobil

Pros – The salary is relatively good compared to the work effort. There is hardly any overtime needed, which makes it an attractive workplace for people with family.

Cons – There is little room for moving up the ladder. The tasks are not very motivating and people can get bored fast.

Advice to Senior Management – Offer more job rotation possibilities for employees. Also, use less emphasis on the safety issues.

Former Employee – worked at Exxon Mobil as a contractor for more than 7 years

Pros – pay, benefits, intellectual challenge great people

Cons – location, location, location, and the weather

Advice to Senior Management – consider letting people telecommute and work part-time

Former Employee – worked at Exxon Mobil

Pros – work employees were great & left over food was always a bonus.

Cons – managers always came and went, shifts were over extended sometimes.

Advice to Senior Management – allow flexible hours besid