ExxonMobil reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(8,441 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 8,441 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
Oct 29, 2012

Life at Exxon Mobil

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Pros

Pay and Benefits are excellent.

Cons

'Red Tape' and 'Red Book' are equally bureaucratic. The company is so bent up on Security and Controls they lose sight of the things that matter e.g., getting software that they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars deployed before the software is end of life (EOL or SOL). There isn't anything wrong with being focused on Security and Controls - just need to focus more energy on 'time to market'. And, from an IT perspective, IT considers itself a 'Service Company' i.e., ExxonMobil IT (EMIT), that doesn't understand the first thing about being a 'service'. They tell the business what 'they have on the shelf' and that 'this is what we have' and we will not engineer a solution to meet your needs if what we have does not work. In turn, the business has been left with a very sour taste in their mouths year after year. Where is the 'service' in the 'Service Company'?

2.0
Oct 18, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting technical projects. Good infrastructure/resources for conducting research.

Cons

Very authoritarian culture. Lot of back-biting spurred by force ranking. Frustration among majority of the researchers due to lot of "busy work" and useless meetings.

4.0
Oct 15, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Exxon Mobil is the Industry leader. They have the money and the resources to research, develop, and produce top notch solutions to technological challenges. They pay excellent salaries, provide ample training to maintain expertise, and offer opportunities in many different fields. The Safety culture is among the best.

Cons

The company is very conservative and can miss out on first mover opportunities. The employee appraisal "Rating and Ranking" system is antiquated and widely disliked.

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