I saw a job posting at Exxon for a geoscientist. I'd really like to apply, I'm an exact match for the candidate description and probably over qualified (requires 5 years experience and I have 8), but I need to work remotely. Does Exxon let any staff work remotely permanently? TIA
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Please stop giving prospective hires false hopes and fake news.
Have some compassion, they are trying to make an important decision in their lives, do not lie in their faces.
What's your definition of "uneven"? Yeah the probability of pulling this off long term is not 0% but it is definitely less than 5%.
Only if you are a valued employee do they allow you to work remotely indefinitely. There are a few cases of this. It's very unequal. Some people are told to come to the office, while others are allowed to live in a completely different state.
@cqz+1iHJAMiS - Re: brownnosing... Is it brownnosing by oblivious employees? More likely it's paid shills to lie for the corporation.
WFH . Ha ha . You are not the perfect fit. Look somewhere else
Nope. Don’t do it. You might get promised that it is ok but your next manager in 12-18 mon will make sure that will change.
Nope
The level of brow-nosing in some Layoffers is beyond comprehension.
Doesn't matter what is the question there's always one brown-noser who finds something positive about the company that leans towards defending it.
The prospective candidate said GEOSCIENCE, not inspection, not sales, not marketing.
Stop defending the undefendable, brownie.
Doesn’t matter. You’ll be replaced by a quasi-slave in India within a few years. Look elsewhere.
Lots of positions are home based, and have been for years. Sales engineers, third party inspection specialists, some marketing positions - it all depends on the job.
EM has some home based employees, mainly Sales representatives.
LOL no not at all
STAY AWAY
No. If anything, they penalize you for working from home. You may get a good supervisor who will allow you to WFH, but it will only be a temporary arrangement.
I have had some great supervisors, but the horrible ones had very little compassion. I couldn’t work from home:
- when I broke my toe & couldn’t wear shoes without pain.
- my roof was being replaced.
- I had hives all over my body.
- I had a swollen eye from a nasty stye.
- my wife’s mother died
- my windows were blown out and I couldn’t secure my home.
An on & on.
There is very little flexibility despite the claims coming from the company. There is no real policy for WFH. It really all depends on your supervisor and many aren’t that understanding.
Nope. Forget it. Move on and don't ever,ever, ever look back to this fhole.
Other companies also do 9-80’s.
This company sucks. Go work anywhere else.
No flexibility. I worked a number of years living away from my family. Supervisors will follow the policy to the letter. Even if they make accommodations now , it will not be honored later.
My sup never bothered to ask or offer a role that offers work life balance. Just pile on more work. Little show of support when there was a death in my family. I worked the day after the event. This is a very cold place to work despite all the happy smiling faces that appeared on LinkedIn recently.
Bad idea.
Even if hiring supervisor says yet you won't get it in writing on a permanent basis. This front line sup won't be in this job for more than 1-2 yrs before is rotated and replaced by new minion who wants to undo everything done by predecessor.
New sup will force you to move and you'll find that you wasted 1 year and back to job market, this time in the midst of a recession.
C'mon people, have a bit of compassion for this young professional, don't give fake hopes.
Move on kiddo, seriously.
I think it doesn’t hurt to apply and try to negotiate it if you get an offer. What can you lose? Go for it.
You came to the right place to ask.
No remote work.
As a matter of fact is the opposite of remote work in terms of flexibility: you must commute to the campus, but you won't get a private desk for yo, but on a "first come first serve" basis. They call it "hot desking" to make it sound hip.
Imagine working in a coffee shop, but in a terrible location, terrible coffee, no background music, and where you have to be by 7AM to secure a desk (and a parking space).
Also what makes you think you are "exact match for the candidate description".
No way you are, the job description refers to what you will do the first 6 months in the job.
After that you will be assigned to something not geoscience related (as a "broadening" assignment) and you have no control whatsoever of what that next assignment will be.
So, whoever wrote that job description can keep that promise for 6 months. Beyond that you just don't know.
Don't do this to yourself. Just look elsewhere.
No.
No. I have asked and been told that although there have been a few folks who have done it in the past, Exxon almost never approves US based employees to work from home full time.
I am not sure if there is more flexibility in India or other countries.
Sadly, no.