ExxonMobil reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(8,434 total reviews)
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62% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

ExxonMobil has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 8,434 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ExxonMobil employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Nov 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent salaries, able to work with very intelligent coworkers, opportunities for travel and multiple career paths, great opportunities and compensation if you rank highly compared to your peers.

Cons

Personnel system is abysmal. The company uses a very archaic method of evaluating employee performance based upon intangible parameters. Too much responsibility and power for shaping employees' career paths is given to management, with too little communication with employees as to where they see themselves moving in the company. An HR representative told me that 50% of new hires in the company leave within their first 5 years. Also, management is often more concerned with short-term goals and their own performance rankings rather than providing leadership and support to their subordinates or thinking about the future of the company.

2.0
Nov 9, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Well Paid, Flexibility in Workplace (which means you can go to the doctor when you need to, but you have to get extra, special permission to work from home, even when fuel prices are over $4 per gallon), solid security and control measures. Global work and workplace opportunities.

Cons

Clandestine management decisions, including career choices, "command and control"-style management, inconsistency (we need new ideas, but can't get beyond year-2000 thinking), low-level leadership panics due to overbearing (and out-of-touch) senior management, lack of vision, lack of stated goals, lack of communication, management immune from hearing feedback from employees due to forced ranking, conducted by supervisors needing the feedback, that determines ones employment status from year to year -- because retribution is always a possibility, despite the controlled nature of the process.

5.0
Nov 4, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You work with brilliant people and you have incredible opportunities to develop. You are rotated around to ensure full development.

Cons

There are huge bureaucratic procedures that you must put up with as any large company has.

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