High Pay, Demanding Hours - Reliability Engineer ExxonMobil Employee Review

4.0
May 10, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Refinery engineering jobs pay very well, and there can be lots of paths to advancement if you're open to relocation.

Cons

Work hours demanded often exceed 40/wk, and turnarounds basically require you to abandon your life and family for weeks on end. This work schedule just isn't reasonable when you have children. If you aren't willing to relocate, your options for advancement are limited, and your ranking will suffer. Supervisors and Managers are rotated through very quickly, so there's little consistency in priorities.

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5.0
Mar 15, 2026
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Pros

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

Cons

Lots of security and locked down tech and hard to find what's available.

4.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great all around compensation - from salary, benefits (401k & pension & flexible work], medical [fantastic] Great people - at the company you understand everyone around is came from being one of the smartest people at their previous job/university. Within IT the overwhelming majority of people really care for you, this feels way more collaborative than competitive. Career Development - lots of opportunities to grow in breadth of experience to get deep in your skills and grow in leadership skills

Cons

Work Politics - being such a large corporation with a lot of history there is a tendency to be work politics/red tape sheerly because of the size of the company. However, it is not really bad if you are willing network , put yourself out there to talk with leaders, and be a normal hard-working enjoyable employee. If you do these two things you will succeed at ExxonMobil.

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