Machiavellian - Senior Geoscientist ExxonMobil Employee Review

1.0
Aug 8, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They hired a few people during the 2015 downturn when other companies weren't

Cons

You are a tool for company profit and they don't even try to hide it -Many people I know have had workplace injuries and were instructed to push through the pain because there job depends on it despite the fact they were so severely hurt they couldn't do normal daily activities like drive a car or lift a glass of water -If you don't have kids, be prepared for everyone to assume you belong to the company 24/7 -They disguise layoffs as performance reviews so that they don't have to announce publicly that they are holding layoffs -Team members and formally assigned mentors will try to stab you in the back if it will help them at all in the ranking process -As a new hire, my assigned mentor actively tried to take away some of my assigned work because he wanted to be able to claim that work on his annual performance review -Darren (CEO) loves the system because it worked for him and defends the system with an anecdote about his first role as a supervisor where he clashed with one of his direct reports and forced her out. A year later, she called him up and told him that leaving ExxonMobil was the best thing she had done in her entire life. Therefore, the current system is great

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Great all around compensation - from salary, benefits (401k & pension & flexible work], medical [fantastic] Great people - at the company you understand everyone around is came from being one of the smartest people at their previous job/university. Within IT the overwhelming majority of people really care for you, this feels way more collaborative than competitive. Career Development - lots of opportunities to grow in breadth of experience to get deep in your skills and grow in leadership skills

Cons

Work Politics - being such a large corporation with a lot of history there is a tendency to be work politics/red tape sheerly because of the size of the company. However, it is not really bad if you are willing network , put yourself out there to talk with leaders, and be a normal hard-working enjoyable employee. If you do these two things you will succeed at ExxonMobil.

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