Those of you who left other O&G companies to join XOM, any regrets? A guy recently joined my team who left BP because he scored a job here and I'm having trouble wrapping my head around that. I don't know him well enough yet to ask what the he-l he was thinking, but I can ask here if others have done something similar and what they're thinking about their move now.
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I would eat cat food or starve before going to that he-l ho-e again.
@2tyy Yes because if they pay the same or even a bit less, the job stability is so much better in those sectors. ExxonMobil used to be a career, now it’s just a one-year contract gig.
Would you guys consider leaving O&G for similar old/slow industries like defense and government?
Assuming pay, benefits, etc are all the same.
I left a trading company and came to XOM in 2018. I won’t say it was a bad decision, but it didn’t take me long to see that XOM was a complete cr-p show. My manager hated me because several reasons and I bounced before all the PIP mess last year. I saw the writing on the wall.
I’ve since moved to a tech company and couldn’t be happier.
I work for a competitor and would never consider jumping ship to Exxon. But I'm not aggy enough for you lot so it works out best for both sides.
I am on the opposite route: moving out of O&G to a tech company. I don’t want to say the grass is greener in there but it does look like it is. Yesterday I got my new working notebook at home and surprisingly it was a very nice one from HP top notch and not sh---y Dells. I will report to a manager (there’s no supervisor mid man such thing in there) and she has been so nice and interested about me. She was also perfectly fine and leaving me working remotely until I’m ready to move up there. These are all simple things that I never had at Exxon. Nobody is going back to the office until COVID is over. It does seem the grass is greener on the other side indeed.
Came to Exxon about 4 years ago. Biggest mistake I ever made.
Thought I was going to have better opportunities but got moved to a new team that has nothing to do my my 15 year of experience, never seen this anywhere.
Besides all this Exxon have manage COVID very poor.
This show the type of management Exxon have.
Not even going to mention ranking session that is based on popularity.
@OP Leaving one O&G company for another O&G company makes no sense.
Every O&G company is copying & pasting the business model from the closest competitor and painting over it with company-specific rhetoric. The result is the same toxic situation, but with slightly different vocabulary.
My advice is to leave the industry altogether unless you have an indispensable skill that no O&G company can operate without. Even then I would still suggest that you leave the industry; there’s no future in it.
Very similar problems at other O&G problems, with more frequent (albeit better executed) layoffs.
I left a competitor to join EM a while back. You if the right position opens up, you find out quickly that your value on the open market is considerably higher than your value at your previous company, where they assume they have you by the heuvos and are in no rush to promote you.
I was sweating buckets last year during the layoffs though. Much more seniority and a much better severance package at the old shop than here.
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Good for you, unfortunately this is not the same company you were fortunate to work for.
O&G circle jerk. What does it matter?
Same sad denial.
He got hired on to be pad the bottom ranks
1995 to 2014 (maybe even to 2019) was one thing for being an Exxon and then EM employee, but the last year and a half everything is different, going down at an amazing speed. EM is now in free fall, and you can fall only that long before you’re done for. That from an employee who joined in the mid ‘90s proud to work for Exxon.
I left BP in 2000 and hired on with EM. I retired from EM at 65 yo as a senior associate engineer. EM was good for me; saw the world and left with a fat 401k and a very flush retirement package. For the next +20 years everyday will be an endless vacation. Life is good. Thanks EM!!!
Good luck to everyone!
I moved from a competitor ~2yrs ago. The reasons for part career, part family. Most of the politics stuff is no different. Just the management staff in XOM is incredibly weak in technical matters. Nobody (no company) has a good plan for developing technical talent and rewarding it. XOM treated its employee base like dirt compared to its competitors with the COVID layoff/pip response. Seems like XOM is behind our competitors regarding the switch to renewables. Only XOM ranks technical individual contributors along with people on a mgr/sup track. Everyone has grass, it’s all brown.
That's a very bad move for sure. They don't have an idea what they signed up for. It's going to be a 1-year term only.
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