Exxon Mobil Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Pros

* Great Salary
* Lots of opportunities
* Worldwide exposure

Cons

* Large Size
* Competitive ranking

Pros

The best healthcare benefits. Different options to take time off or work part time. Good for working mother with moderate career goals (not for VP to be working moms). College graduate advance pretty fast.

Cons

Company culture is very conservative and arrogant. The environment is extremely competitive. Performance evaluation process is very subjective; ranking can be very unfair if your boss doesn't fight for you. In XOM you can be just a number, it's toooooooo big.

Advice to Senior Management

Change the ranking system.
Copy the best from other companies (Google, Apple, etc.) Need to innovate more
Don't favor High Profile employees only.

Pros

Safety conscious, training opportunities, mentoring, travel.

Cons

Immediate supervisors have a large influence on day-to-day work environment (can be good or bad). Recent changes to technical skill gates.

Pros

Great Job security
OK benefits (no spouse or children life insurance offered)
Nice fringe benefits (discounted gas card) ;-)
Employee opportunities across several different disciplines

Cons

This company is an oil/energy company...not a technology company. However, several management personnel are not very knowledge about the departments they manage, and not to fault them, many simply don't have the time to investigate because they too are so occupied completing tasks that should otherwise be automated. The level of bureaucracy is ridiculous and is an extreme hinderance at job task completion. There are a select few managers that are extremely good and have great ideas for IT change, however they face an uphill battle.

Advice to Senior Management

(IT department) Please recognize the importance of change and not be so resistance to it. So many daily routine tasks can be so simply automated in a safe and secure manner which will save time and money, in addition to improving employee morale in that they will be freed up to work on actual job related tasks instead of paperwork. Please listen more to the front line employees and be open to change.

Pros

Level growth prospects with little chance of staff reduction

Cons

Compensation and career growth limited

Pros

For this past summer, I had the opportunity to intern with ExxonMobil. It has been the most challenging and rewarding experience I have ever had, and I strongly encourage everyone here to definitely apply for it and take advantage of this opportunity. One of the most rewarding parts of this experience is getting to know and work with lots of industry experts. It is just such a stimulating environment for you to constantly challenge yourself for better work and performance. This is hands down the most rewarding internship I have ever had. After the internship, I have no doubt in my mind that I would like to join the company full time.

Cons

Extremely competitive environment, might have to go OT from time to time if you want to stand out. But it is in the meantime definitely a motivating environment

Advice to Senior Management

A little less summer activities, and probably could be more audience specific and oriented, especially for candidates with advanced degrees

Pros

Work life balance
Low stress
Challenging problems

Cons

Process-oriented.
Creativity and innovation face inertial barriers.
Employee satisfaction is a low priority.
Relative ranking is based on reputation and extracurriculars (safety, united way), not work accomplishments.

Pros

Benefits are stellar. Pay is excellent. Because it is a big company, there are resources to provide for training and conferences.

Cons

Career and professional development is limited. The company seeks to hire 'really smart and completely unambitious people' in the words that I heard from one senior manager.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide for more opportunities for leadership for IT personnel. Let IT people supervise and manage their own kind. Bringing in geologists and petroleum engineers to lead software developers disrespects the IT personnel.

Pros

great benefits, good people to work with

Cons

hard to move up and their ranking system

Pros

Benefits, talented people, if you rank good, the raises are increadible (can go up to 20%)

Cons

No work life balance
Poor vacation policy
No flex time
Expected ovetime, all the time. Finishing your job without working ovetime is not deemed as efficiency. They just give you more work to adjust to the same level of ovetime everyone else is working. 70 hours a week is GREAT performance! Even if 70 hours was due to incompetancy of the person.

Advice to Senior Management

Recongize that the world has changed. New generation wants more flexibility and more time off work and other copanies are realizing that. We are not slackers, we just want more flexibility. Not everyone has a stay home wife, not everyone thinks kids are horriable obstacles in great life, not everyone's goal is to die making career.