ExxonMobil reviews

Company has been in decline for a decade now - it has been hollowed out. Once-strong culture has devolved into an echo chamber of yes-men, who compete to flatter the management layer above them. Technical work is no longer primary - there is direct and indirect pressure to produce the politically expected outcome. By now we have a whole generation of managers raised like that and hijacking the company to enrich themselves. This does not bode well for the company's future.

1. Compensation structure is, at best, stagnant. The methodology for finance function employees has dropped the salary curve to levels that leaves most young employees unsure of earning potential and fails to motivate anyone effectively. The inability of senior management to understand that a member of the finance function is not tied to a particular industry has created a mass exodus of younger employees seeking employment elsewhere. 2. The ranking system fails to address those who lag behind, instead rewarding old analysts with an effective tenure that costs the company 3x as much for a quarter of the work of a younger employee. Ultimately, it leaves young analysts feeling undervalued and under-compensated, while encouraging older employees to put in time to simply work 6 hour days for a lucrative paycheck. 3. The work fails to engage employees in any type of meaningful way. If you want to come to work to follow instructions in excel and make very few choices about the things you do or work on, then this is the place for you. 4. Career progression is inflexible. Your career is at the hands of a committee who simply places you where they deem fit.