Pros
- Stable company; not about to go bankrupt - Slightly-above-average initial base salary - Some employers value the name on the resume / CV
Kontras
CULTURE - Oppressive culture and heartless senior managers have turned the employees into unhappy robots - Institutional arrogance, i.e. "ExxonMobil is #1 at everything; our competitors are pathetic" -- Morphs into personal arrogance common among the employees, e.g., senior managers think that they are gods -- Displaying emotional intelligence is taken as a sign of weakness; thoughtful employees are stuck in middle management - Extremely conformist - Office politics unduly thick - In the energy industry, known as adopters, but not inventors - Backstabbing common among team members (collaboration is not consciously encouraged), i.e., peer will try to embarras one another during meetings FINANCIALLY - No bonuses (almost all the other majors do) while the base salaries are very close one another - Significant, early raises following by (inflation-based) plateuing salaries WORK-LIFE BALANCE - No 9/80s, i.e., employees do not get every other friday off MECHANICS - Heavy nepotism; national origin, marital relationships, region of the country, etc. - Agism - National originism; culturalism; Texan culture and the good-ole-boys network - Most parts of the globe; tolerated racism (All of the above at unduly extreme level) - Personnel decisions are made without direct employee input (unlike at most ther majors), e.g., no internal job postings - (Low) quality of supervisors make employees worse future supervisors MORALE - Psychologically demeaning; low emplyee morale -- Employees (incl. supervisors) scared of doing anything -- Usual management style is to bully your employees; no 360s, i.e., supervisors do not get graded on how their direct reports think that the supervisors are doing - Humor or aving fun is looked down upon -- If you want to die at an early age ("right after retirement" is quite common), ExxonMobil should be your top choice - "High pay and the name attract people; rigidity and low morale drive them away." - Most older employees feel trapped; very few happy employees