Has “we have the best people” been repeated so many times that people believe it or just say it as a reflex? I for one am tired of hearing people say it so often. Don’t try tell me other companies don’t have good people. If you believe this please explain.
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The BEST you id--ts have came from XTO. Sooner are later, after you've PIPed them out of existence, perhaps you'll have to eat a few of your own young you pompous arrogant as--s
Back stabbers from TAMU? Noooooooo….
We have some extra high performing back stab..rs from
Pune Univ., Anna Univ, Inst of Chem Technology, Texas Tech, Kansas State U etc etc
A and m The teach back stabbing , arrogance , dbaggery, how to get ahead 101. They are creatures
Gone are days when top folks from top institutes joined XOM. Look at current young execs LinkedIn, they are from some state university that they are ashamed to put in LinkedIn. While the very old Execs are all from top-notch Univs and are extremely smart.
The new ones undergrad you never heard of - some Missississipi State or Montana State or Louisiana Tech or something. Consider us lucky if it’s A&M .. ain’t that sad?
These folks then post some Online course they took at Oxford or MIT or Stanford. If nothing else, they do MBA from UT Austin or Rice.
What you are is where you went to Undergrad and how you did there — strong correlation.
Post Undergrad is TRASH. Doesn’t matter if it’s at MIT online course or Exec MBA that you are doing in evening. Same as University of Phoenix. It’s easy to know why - because even after all that - you are still here !
As intelligence and smarts is no longer the strong suit, it’s replaced quickly by how good the person is in following orders or opining on trivial matters or doing power walks and parroting someone else.
Need a strategic leader to fix it bottom, too and middle - not necessarily an Exxon issue, this is an industry issue. I have seen same in Shell, Chevron and BP
Until then we are replaceable by BTC mediocre engineers.
Majority are from A&M, many are from BYU. What can I say or can't say.
Just wait until CRT is vigorously implemented so that equity can be achieved among the 'best of the equitable best'.
I can assure you Princeton, Harvard, MIT etc grads are not lining up to work at ExxonMobil lol.
Process of copulation i believe. Does that answer your question? At least its a "documented process"....
We hire the best of the best of those who apply. Which is not even the top 30% of the workforce.
Those who do not apply are future entrepreneurs who are not looking to be strapped to a mega corporation which we can earn a decent living and retire with the middle class.
Those who leave never really fit in and will succeed terrifically in their future endeavors.
I heard this so much from more mature people who had been with the Company 20+ years. I think this might of been true a long time ago, but Exxon is no longer competitive in terms of compensation, benefits, work life balance, or job security when compared to many Companies (I am no longer employed with Exxon). The best and brightest will work for the Company that has the best opportunity, which isn't Exxon.
Furthermore, the Leadership has deteriorated this Company by assuming we are all ignorant by passing off "PIP's" as part of their "leading class talent management" and not a lay-off. At the bare minimum, if it wasn't a lay-off, they would hire US citizens to replace them (not people from BTC/KLTC). My group had 3 people in the US in it when I left, and we supported global initiatives for engineering. When I started, we had 20 (this was 3 years ago) US based employees. Every time a colleague left, I was introduced to a new Engineer from BTC who I had to work with.
What bothered me the most is that the colleagues who left because of this "leading class talent management" where perfectly fine employees. In most cases, they were just older (ageism), or from what I could gather, didn't hang out at the coffee machine enough. Everyone who replaced them was not comparable to what our group lost and had to be extensively trained, and the training was still on-going when I left. The only benefit that was ever told to me was how cheap they were to perform the work. It's hard to see that as anything other than a forced lay-off.
The company has collected and groomed some of the worst people. Few good people that it hires (along with a majority of productivity wise incompetent people) are quickly brainwashed into zombie-like bad people. The net result is (mostly) bad employees from top to bottom.
It the management is fake, they have to keep repeating that they are the best to perpetuate self importance. Remember D Woods always emphasizes how he is the best thing since sliced bread.
Step outside the corporation and then you could see that the outside world doesn’t care and it won’t come near even to sp-t.
@bwj Did you really work at other companies before?
All other companies say: we hire you because we believe you have the skillset and capability to excel at this job and we believe we can offer you a rewarding career.....
Whoever said we only hire the best of the best is definitely brainwashed ...
This is the only company I have worked at that says this.
Every company says this. Are you just reposting your random thoughts tonight?