Stable yet takes years to move up within the company - Anonymous employee ExxonMobil Employee Review

3.0
Jun 21, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Hires from within; stable; salary current with market; excellent benefits; pension; the people.

Cons

Performance reviews are not transparent; it's extremely difficult to get ahead; salary increases are incremental at best; there is no internal job posting board so you are completely at the mercy of management to determine the course of your career; culture is extremely conservative and they are not as inclusive as they would like you to believe (ExxonMobil is the only company to score a negative rating on the HRC Equality Index); management rotates in and out frequently so it's easy to slip through the cracks when it comes to reviews and feedback.

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5.0
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Pros

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

Cons

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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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