Good career start option - Software Engineer ExxonMobil Employee Review

2.0
Nov 9, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Good learning opportunities in the early stages of the career, helps with the certifications. - People can be great, usually helpful and understanding. - Good flexibility, depending on the job role, IT has decent flexibility, good work-life balance. - International environment, lots of opportunities to meet people outside of Europe, including traveling from time to time.

Cons

- Difficult to progress quickly in your career (promotions, responsibilities), if you are diligent this can be difficult to comprehend. - Salary and Benefits are nowhere close to what other companies of this scale offer. - Things here move very slow, applies to promotions, salary raises, etc. So if you are impatient and fast, this will be a pain point. - Doing your daily responsibilities is not enough, there are expectations for you to step out and take additional roles and be visible and vocal so that senior managers will know about you. - The tech stack is a bit outdated, some of the tools are very outdated and unwanted in the current market, due to this you have to put extra time to learn/enhance your knowledge.

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Pros

Flex time and really great benefits

Cons

Very competitive corporate atmosphere and little vacation days.

4.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Great all around compensation - from salary, benefits (401k & pension & flexible work], medical [fantastic] Great people - at the company you understand everyone around is came from being one of the smartest people at their previous job/university. Within IT the overwhelming majority of people really care for you, this feels way more collaborative than competitive. Career Development - lots of opportunities to grow in breadth of experience to get deep in your skills and grow in leadership skills

Cons

Work Politics - being such a large corporation with a lot of history there is a tendency to be work politics/red tape sheerly because of the size of the company. However, it is not really bad if you are willing network , put yourself out there to talk with leaders, and be a normal hard-working enjoyable employee. If you do these two things you will succeed at ExxonMobil.

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