Professional Development

Mandatory free training for professional dev. Their Franklin-Covey contractor is particularly good.

Gives you the ability to work in many different positions through the years to grow your experience.

Employee has no say on the next development opportunity; it's is all done behind closed doors and supervisor decided what development opportunity one gets. Some employees never get developed and end up leaving company, thus great talent is lost.

Your rank in the pack will likely determine the type of professional development you'll get. That said, asking for development opportunities either from a technical or managerial perspective is carefully considered by management especially if you can draw a "straight-line" to your role and a business need.

There are plenty of training classes that can be taken

In addition to job training, Exxon teaches training on negotiation, diversity and respect for different types of people. You will grow as a person being employed at Exxon.