Strong financials, horrible culture for employees - Senior Staff Engineer ExxonMobil Employee Review

2.0
26 Aug 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Exxon provides a very disciplined approach to managing corporate direction and thus is relatively stable. In general, the pension and 401k are hard to beat benefits. You have an opportunity to work on some of the largest projects in the world.

Cons

Exxon is NOT an innovator, and requires it's engineers be bureaucrats rather than solve problems. Work and culture are abysmal environments, based on fear and punishment. Security and controls drive every aspect of daily business, and money is wasted for this purpose. It's approach to diversity and inclusion is an embarrassment. ExxonMobil does not branch out in the way it approaches today's energy challenges -- the only card they are willing to play is oil. No investigation in solar, wind, biofuels, etc.

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5.0
15 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people and culture - Everyone is nice and wants to do good work.

Cons

Lots of security and locked down tech and hard to find what's available.

2.0
30 May 2026
Recommend
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Business outlook

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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