ExxonMobil reviews

ExxonMobil is known to be very procedural, very top-down, and competitive. This is what makes them the biggest and most profitable, however. Employees routinely work together on cross-functional teams, and get along well (I've almost never met an employee I couldn't like and admire), but similar job titles and rungs on the career ladder are force-ranked against each other.

1) Campus location. Prepare to commute 2 hours per day if you leave in the loop, or succumb to suburban lifestyle in a mediocre suburb and be ready to meet and greet your Supervisor in Cotsco or Target or Starbucks every weekend. 2) Bureaucracy. You are literally harassed daily by emails with absurd bureaucratic requests that literally kill creativity. 3) Culture of obedience. There is little room to think outside the box or to challenge the status quo, regardless of weather it make sense or not. You either align or leave. 4) Ranking system. Very subjective, and very punitive if you don't get along with your supervisor. Designed to groom the top 10% (mostly managers and top executives) and to neglect the other 90%. 5) Obsolete industry. This is not high tech, at the end of the day, is about drilling holes in the ground.