From glory to disgrace - Engineering ExxonMobil Employee Review

1.0
Jan 7, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Used to be a farsighted/long term oriented company that provides job stability

Cons

Not anymore, poor crisis management, terrible investments on upstream projects, poor execution of good downstream projects. Manpower allocation is poor at best, sending junior process designers to design flagship projects which caused huge design flaws, and sent upstream managers that know nothing about downstream business to manage downstream projects. With recent downsizing initiatives, cull employees through increasing low performance quota. Poor cash flow management in terms of paying excessive dividends when profit is consistently negative. No competitive advantage and slow in implementing initiatives compared to competitors.

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5.0
Mar 15, 2026
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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.

3.0
Jul 13, 2026
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Pros

- Great learning opportunity - get to work with some of the most knowledgeable, hard working, smart, and well rounded individuals - Learn top of the industry engineering skills and fundamentals - Strong emphasis on data backed decision making

Cons

- Extremely political, differentiation between high performers is typically more about how well you've advertised yourself and what aliances you've made as opposed to your actual contributions - Very resistant to change, everything is essentially already mapped out for you - Too rigid of a work environment with little room for individuality or new ways of approaching old problems

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