Everything has it's price - PLC & Instrument Engineer ExxonMobil Employee Review

3.0
9 Jun 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Excellent benefits, competitive salary, recognized industry leader (if you care about that sort of thing), potential for rapid career development, variety of job roles and responsibilities. Relatively self-driven and autonomous work.

Cons

You get paid well, but it's hardly worth it for all the hours you are expected to put in. Work-life balance is a joke. Hardly any time for actual engineering because so many auxiliary responsibilities are heaped on you. Backwards minded approach to financial security prevents them being technologically competitive. Layers of red tape to affect even small changes. Often competing priorities and interests obscure a clear vision of the work that needs to be done.

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Pros

Good benefits, you learn a lot from highly experienced people.

Cons

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2.0
30 May 2026
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Pros

Good pay and a pension

Cons

Everything else. Benefits are lackluster, Flex Your Day policies are elusive. The company changes everything all the time so that a large portion of your time is spent finding new links to things on the portal, figuring out who to contact in various departments and in what country just to get a simple answer to a question. No one stays in the same role long enough to get good at their job. Morale is terrible.

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