Job Title: Analyst
Location: Headquarters office, VA
Submitted on: 10-Dec-03
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ExxonMobil is an enormous corporation; the three companies that make up
ExxonMobil (Upstream, Downstream & Chemical) could all be Fortune 500 on
their own. This size is important bc it shapes the corporate culture in
many ways. In addition to size, XOM has its own unique qualities that
define the corporation.
The corporate culture is simply put, conservative. I work at the
headquarters office in Virginia and the headquarters element surely
affects my particular office site. Dress code is shirt & tie for the
whole site with no casual days. At refineries, dress code is more lax,
with polo shirts acceptable. The office atmosphere is a serious
atmosphere. Diversity is pretty good for an oil company with some many
minorities represented, although 8 out of 10 people you see, will be an
old white guy (that seems common in the oil industry). But that is
changing as the new younger generation, I notice a better mix of
ethnicities (though pretty much all American citizens).If you work in
the business line (engineers, marketing), the hours are good - 8-430ish.
Finance/Accountants work longer - more like 50-60 hour weeks, with
quarter and year end close being the heaviest work load weekds. XOM has
a ranking system, which ranks employees in stratas of thirds. If you are
in the top third, you are set; meaning a great career track and great
financial rewards. Ranking system helps reduce a lot of politics bc you
are stacked up and ranked by a bunch of management, therefore no one
person can hurt/help you too much.
With all large firms, there is a lot of bureacracy. A fellow employee
told me that when she transferred from the govt to XOM, she felt "no
change." And with all the recent problems in corporate America, controls
are the new buzz word. But XOM prides itself in its controls and there
is some good in that from a corporate/shareholder relationship. As an
employee, however, it means many of your assignments can be limited in
scope as you have to segregate duties. You will learn a valuable lesson
in properly maintaining corporate controls. XOM is the opposite of an
Enron.
The first few assigments you will get out of college, even if you have a
finance degree from a top notch school, will be assignments that get you
exposed to the grunt work / basic business processes. Then every 1.5 yr
approximately, you should be rotated.
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