Pros
If you're on the "right" side of your supervisor, you can be totally incompetent and not do any work and no one will care. You'll still get promoted. Following the ExxonValdez oil spill off the Alaskan coast when the ship's captain was drunk, then health and safety has been taken to the extreme by the corporation at all sites, including business services and administration centres ie. Prague. You will always feel very safe, perhaps too safe at times.
Cons
1. Every year upto 10% of employees are forcibly made to leave and doing your job per your job description isn't considered good enough and will eventually get you fired. One year you can be an excellent performer, the next year you can be fired for under performance. There is no peace or stability or logical continuity to process. 2. Performance ranking at ExxonMobil is completely a black box, closed, non-transparent process done behind closed doors; management do not give periodic feedback on your performance throughout the year, and the end of year ranking is done behind closed doors. No evidence exists that the process is fair. 3. If management need to rank someone better thank you for non-work related reasons, you will be ranked an underperformer from which there is no comeback or career progression. 4. Internal documents for managers state that any performance ranking results are not up for discussion and that you are not allowed to ask questions on your performance or raise concerns even though Czech law allows. (don’t be surprised if your manager is stubborn – it’s written in an internal document) 5. Everyone has to compete against everyone (dog eat dog). It's not what you do well, but what your colleague has in the view of management, done better; everyone is given a forced/relative ranking every year that appears arbitrary and has been proven to be unrelated to actual performance, Upto 10% of employees every year are ranked as "needing significant improvement". To "help", they are put through development performance coaching and performance improvement plans, but these are designed to allow ExxonMobil to "build/fabricate" evidence of your underperformance and thereby minimising their legal risks if they fire you. 6. Every year colleagues give you a peer assessment of your performance (peer feedback) which is aligned to actual performance, but this is largely disregarded by management during rankings. Your manager does not want to share this info with you generally, even though you have full legal right to see it (as it contains your personal data!) 6. Totally incompetent management. Local Czech folks who think they have meaningful real world experience from ExxonMobil. Competent managers leave and management generally made up of those who were lucky to climb quickly when ExxonMobil came to Prague in 2004, or generally working Czech mothers returning after maternity leave from who you will learn nothing. ExxonMobil Prague is in a bubble of its own and anyone with corporate experience from Western Europe will be shocked at the arrogance of local management. 7. There is no career (progression) at ExxonMobil. You'll be moved sideways and rotated through many departments to gain "experience" but moving sideways isn’t upwards. Moving upwards is impossible unless you backstab your colleagues or sell yourself to management. 8. Fewer and fewer opportunities at ExxonMobil Prague; admin roles being outsourced to India, roles being automated, structure becoming flatter and flatter, and interesting roles moving to Budapest. 9. ExxonMobil Prague exists in the capacity of a low-cost admin centre. Work here is only about quantity, not quality or value-adding.