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4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(1,546 total reviews)
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Michael J. Hennigan

79% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Marathon Petroleum has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,546 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Marathon Petroleum employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Aug 27, 2019

Good old boy culture coupled with lack of integrity...

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Pros

They have WiFi... other than that, there isn’t much positives...

Cons

- Findlay (I’m not sure I need to explain this one). Having a HQ in Findlay OH is a waste of time and drains value that could be going to shareholders. Thousands (yes thousands) of people renting cars to drive 1.5 hours to and from the airport weekly, then fly is to locations to perform business. This is a huge waste of productivity and money. - Micromanagement hardly describes this culture. Good ideas and independent thought are discouraged. Don’t even attempt to process improve. Only the top wigs make decisions while everyone else waits to be told what to do. This BREEDS inefficiency and mediocre performance. - People are not selected based on their ability but rather how you look, who you know and sometimes who your family is. - Nepotism is not only allowed but enforced by leadership. - This is not a pay for performance company. Regardless of your performance, you can expect no more than a 4% increase even with a promotion. - Rather than operate with integrity, MPC would prefer employees contribute to their super PAC and lobby governments to change their laws. They’d rather buy politicians than do the responsible thing. - They talk about diversity like it’s a new idea... MPC is dead last when compared to peers when it comes to a diverse workforce. They talk about hiring diverse people like it’s a chore and I’m no lawyer but some of the things I’ve heard sound illegal and discriminatory. If diversity were important, wouldn’t Gary say something?

1.0
Apr 5, 2019

George Orwell’s 1984

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Pros

*They will never fire you, no matter how bad you are... (unless you speak without your bosses permission) *The CEO has to be retiring soon... but that’s what everyone thought when he hit “mandatory” retirement age

Cons

*Very dishonest management team *Promotions for kissing the ring. Shareholder value add is met with indifference. Just fall in line. *Findlay, OH (2 hours to an airport!) *0.01% diversity of personnel and thought *Terrible compensation for the industry *No one is actually happy there

1.0
Apr 1, 2020
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Pros

1) Good work life balance 2) Decent benefits 3) Pay to COL ratio is good (but that’s for a reason)

Cons

1) Rotten management: Inept management that will micromanage you to the bone just to feel like they’re actually doing work 2) Zero diversity: The office and surrounding city has zero diversity and culture. If you like being surrounded by conservative boomers then this is the place for you. 3) Depressing city: I mean what were these people thinking? I wouldn’t wish living in Findlay on my worst enemy. Seriously, the entire city shuts down at 8 PM, has maybe 1 crappy token ethnic restaurant for each cuisine, and is surrounded by miles of cornfields for 50 miles+ in any direction. 4) IT Culture is inept: The fish rots from the head down, the CIO to middle management have no idea of modern technology unless legacy VB.Net and C# is your idea of emerging technology. 5) Poor talent retainment: Every year these fools bring in interns and try and talk up Marathon to them to convince them to come back because no other Fortune 50 company in their right mind would place their HQ in a rural rust belt town like they have so they act like they’re the biggest game in town when in reality they’re the only game in town (and for a reason). The result is they get rarely any interns that return for another internship or full-time, and the only ones that do either have no other options, or they go to school in a conservative rural area themselves.

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