Excellent Place to Start a Career - Advanced Engineer ExxonMobil Employee Review

4.0
Oct 7, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company is truly world class in its training and structure. It has a lot to offer someone fresh out of school. If you begin in a "good" role, you have a lot of potential to grow quickly. There are lots of opportunities to rotate throughout the organization.

Cons

The company's structure is what defines it, and it will define you. If you don't fit, don't force it, but move on, as you will not succeed in changing the regime. The role you start in very often defines your career path. Beginning in a "lesser" section or division will likely eliminate any hope of making it to the C-suite or executive level. The opportunities to move are great, but the locations can be less ideal, especially with their recent sale of their refineries in the greater New Orleans and Los Angeles areas.

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5.0
Mar 15, 2026
Recommend
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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
Recommend
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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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