Excellent Place to Start a Career - Advanced Engineer ExxonMobil Employee Review

4.0
Oct 7, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company is truly world class in its training and structure. It has a lot to offer someone fresh out of school. If you begin in a "good" role, you have a lot of potential to grow quickly. There are lots of opportunities to rotate throughout the organization.

Cons

The company's structure is what defines it, and it will define you. If you don't fit, don't force it, but move on, as you will not succeed in changing the regime. The role you start in very often defines your career path. Beginning in a "lesser" section or division will likely eliminate any hope of making it to the C-suite or executive level. The opportunities to move are great, but the locations can be less ideal, especially with their recent sale of their refineries in the greater New Orleans and Los Angeles areas.

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5.0
Jul 3, 2026
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Pros

Learn and grow rapidly in short amount of time.

Cons

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3.0
Jul 13, 2026
Recommend
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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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