From glory to disgrace - Engineering ExxonMobil Employee Review

1.0
Jan 7, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Used to be a farsighted/long term oriented company that provides job stability

Cons

Not anymore, poor crisis management, terrible investments on upstream projects, poor execution of good downstream projects. Manpower allocation is poor at best, sending junior process designers to design flagship projects which caused huge design flaws, and sent upstream managers that know nothing about downstream business to manage downstream projects. With recent downsizing initiatives, cull employees through increasing low performance quota. Poor cash flow management in terms of paying excessive dividends when profit is consistently negative. No competitive advantage and slow in implementing initiatives compared to competitors.

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Cons

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4.0
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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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