Great job security, training opportunities, and highly skilled workforce, but lacks operational agility - Senior Geologist ExxonMobil Employee Review

4.0
Jan 10, 2015
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Pros

Job security, compensation and benefits are great, excellent training opportunities, workforce is highly skilled and knowledgable, ability to move around different job types and gain new skills.

Cons

The bureaucracy can be stifling. Too much oversight by management and technical leaders makes it difficult to be agile. Demographics are still top heavy with older workforce making upward mobility difficult. Some projects are overstaffed. Forced ranking is not constructive.

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5.0
Mar 15, 2026
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Pros

Great people and culture - Everyone is nice and wants to do good work.

Cons

Lots of security and locked down tech and hard to find what's available.

4.0
Jun 30, 2026
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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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