ExxonMobil reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(8,432 total reviews)
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61% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

ExxonMobil has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 8,432 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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8K reviews
1.0
Apr 12, 2022
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Pros

Work alongside world leading scientists

Cons

Company declared a war on its employees. Run. The benefits might look attractive at first but there is no future here. Unionized employees have not had a contract or a raise in 4 years. They still don't let you work from home. Even during pandemic the management was forcing people to come in. Very cut throat and unfair performance assessment process. They have quotas to hit on how many people they have to let go each performance assessment cycle. Even if you are a good worker, you are still put through a degrading process of having to justify your existence in the company because they have to let go off 8% of employees each year. It's basically a lay off without having to pay a package. Don't take a job here. Run. It's a slowly dying industry with long term shrinking profits even if they try to shiffle the numbers to show otherwise. The era of oil and gas is over and it's only going to get worse for them. Especially since it's clear that they only are concerned with keeping their shareholders happy, not the employees.

1.0
Jan 30, 2020

I wish someone had told me...

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Pros

Salary, that’s all I can say

Cons

Micro management, bullying, you can’t apply for the next job when you are ready, they rank you and pit you against each other, management’s bad behaviors are not only tolerated but defended. It’s the worst decision I ever made to accept a job here. I wish someone had told me all of this before I relocated for this nightmare.

3.0
Nov 12, 2019
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Pros

Pay as a researcher is excellent. That is the only thing that keeps people here. You know where this is going... Good flexible hours, benefits etc., with some stigma attached. Highly recommended for those who want a job where they can 'coast' with high pay and little likelihood of being fired. Low-stress job after a few years. Good opportunities for shifting to management role if desired. Plenty of rotational/travel opportunities. Lots of career paths to choose from. Plenty of smart people to work with and around. Plenty of interesting projects to work on.

Cons

The management at Clinton, NJ has essentially commandeered the ranking system as a method of lining their own pockets and rewarding their political allies. Your 'rank' at the R&D headquarters is mostly just a measure of your political success. I had to see it for many years to finally believe it. The quality of the engineering work (and innovation) you do is irrelevant to your rank, as long as it meets basic requirements. As a researcher with a PhD, this may cause depression after some number of years, but you will get over it! Exxon is a top-down company with strong managerial control. The top-down approach to research prioritization produces awkward results. Be prepared to work on programs/projects which appear totally pointless to you and your colleagues. Micromanagement is very common, as managers were once engineers themselves. No method of underlings to review supervisor performance. It is a one-way street.

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