Pros
Worked at XOM for over a decade, first 10 years were decent - excellent comp, variety of experiences, some interesting projects if you could get staffed on them. Sales pitch of a career for life was believable prior to 2020.
Cons
Senior management Dallas decided in 2020 that they had too many employees and instead of having layoffs with severance as other O&G companies did, XOM started firing 8% of the employees per year for "performance reasons" and then tried to gaslight the remaining employees about this. Oddly the many, many "execs" we have weren't included in this 8%, just the employees who do the actual work. XOM continues to encourage employees in HC10 locations (the ten counties with the highest labor costs - US, Can, Singapore, Western Europe) to leave voluntarily by lowering their salary curves. My friends who stayed got ~1% raises for 2021 when inflation was 7%. The company is replacing the workforce with cheap labor in India, Malaysia, South America, and Eastern Europe which means fewer and fewer advancement opportunities in the US unless you have an executive sponsor. Longer term issues that still haven't been addressed: No visibility to jobs career paths. Ranking system based on politics and sponsorship rather than actual business results. No work from home flexibility. Endless red tape and "alignment" meetings to make even the simplest decisions. No empowerment, just the DOAG. I resigned in 2021 and am much happier.
