Good Pay, Variable Work/Life Balance, Bad Culture - Anonymous employee ExxonMobil Employee Review

2.0
Jul 31, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The pay was good and the people I worked with were great!

Cons

The work/life balance really depends on the role that you get. If you're more tied to manufacturing/pilot plant, you're on call and have daily meetings (before 8 AM AND after 4 PM) making it hard to do anything Although we have flextime, it does bleed into personal life and it's hard to manage sometimes. The lab folks had pretty laid back schedules and workloads. The forced ranking system is archaic and causes a lot of distrust in management. Also management should not control your career prospects. It's a really toxic system. I've also seen a lot of microaggressions in the plant and racist comments by operators which made me feel unwelcome.

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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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