Toxic management, poor compensation, and arbitrary performance review system - Scientist ExxonMobil Employee Review

1.0
Oct 26, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

A chance to work in high-interest R&D. Great research freedom and funding. Advancement opportunities if you play the game

Cons

Toxic management culture. No feedback, completely opaque and subjective performance review process, despite numerous claims otherwise. Many were encouraged and told they were doing great, then fired for 'poor performance' the next week. 401k match taken away for nearly 2 years. Terrible morale for both union/nonunion workers. Pervasive sense of dishonesty in all management decisions.

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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
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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