ExxonMobil reviews

Large company sometimes lacks the personal touch. There is a focus on checking off items on a worklist, not on doing the job well. The 2 year job rotations does not hold engineers accountable if their solution fails drastically 5 years later. Pattern of promoting 2-4 year engineers into management roles, creates leaders who sometimes lack the technical chops needed for their role. Lots of time is spent progressing tasks through the systems.

The culture leaves a lot to be desired. There is a lot of arrogance about how great the company is; few people will admit how much the profitability relies on the price of oil which is very much out of their control. It is as far from an entrepreneurial environment as company could be, many people there believe that if there was a better way to do things someone would have thought of it years before...not the place for someone who isn’t willing to conform to a very rigid company. The Another concern is that there is a great deal of offshoring, if you aren’t an engineer or a manager, job security seems pretty poor compared to years ago with lots of positions going to lower cost locations overseas.