Great Benefits, Outsourcing more each year - Tech Support ExxonMobil Employee Review

3.0
Dec 5, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Provide you lots of tools/software and trainings at no expense, very great for people who wish to learn Offer to pay for your Masters degree 2 months of paternity leave for US employees

Cons

Just recently laid off thousands of US Employees (myself included) while they continue to hire in growing numbers each year from India and Brazil. They are pivoting their IT roles to a more foreign base and reducing their US numbers each year. My supervisor and their manager had no idea I was going to be laid off until the evening before, and when they tried to stop it from happening they had no power. Upper management calls the shots, regardless of your contributions. Annual employee reviews/rankings are not accurate or based on the amount you've contributed to the company. You can develop solutions that save the company hundreds of thousands of dollars per year over your other team members and still be ranked in the bottom third for their own reasons which are unclear. You are also ranked against a large number of other teams that should not be ranked against each other due to their differences. For example, they will rank support teams against project teams, and all of the project teams will always rank higher than the support team members because of the money saved/provided from the projects vs the support teams requests that don't generally make the company any more money. Depending on your supervisor, they will ask what role you would like to do next (for the next rotation period) and put you in something completely unrelated that was not what you communicated. This happened two different times while I was with the company (supervisor kept putting me in support roles when I had expressed interest in development/coding, even after developing multiple projects that demonstrated the necessary skillset). Most supervisors are outside the US, and have a tendency to rank their country's team members above you. This was the case for 2 out of my 3 supervisors.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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