With the pathetic quality of work and low salary as compared to peers in market, ExxonMobil is on it way to another failure effort of offshoring jobs. This one is called BTC in India. People are leaving in big numbers, India has much better jobs to offer than Exxon, not at all competitive for pay or career development.
There is no future for BTC engineers. You are expected to do the same manual labor you are doing today for the rest of your life. Any job with perks and growth will remain in Houston. Plan accordingly, get the experience for 2-3 years and leave.
This company is not worth staying for in hopes of change, look at the management for reality. Always acting on things late, always putting blame on employees, always copying others, always areogant, always over-confident.
You are just a ‘resource’ , a ‘number’. From global Service center experiences, no change will come until certain level of attrition is reached, which will have to get very high almost to the effect that BTC becomes become like a call center of an IT company. That is what most in Exxon think of BTC as in any case.
In addition to this oil and gas has no future, Exxon will be late to the game and fail in renewables, the CCS project is a hoax like the algae one. Be smart and plan your exit. BTC will be 1000s of employees, with no real work and a toxic work culture. Forget expat assigments, there are none.
In any case share with friends, leave BTC, don’t give management any hints or warninngs or ask for changes as they won’t happen. Houston counterparts have suffered in front of your eyes, we are no different, even less important or significant to them.