Very tough, boring job - Hydraulic Fracturing Field Engineer Halliburton Employee Review

2.0
Feb 9, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

they take care of you. give you a company car, pay for your gas, meals (while you're on the job), put you in a hotel if you need to be in one. The money is ok.you get a base salary of about 57,000 and then after 8 or so months you start making bonuses. So basically after your first year you start making significantly more than the base

Cons

Very very very long hours. I stayed on field for 37 hours straight. Very high pressure job. Very boring. Very lonely job. Very unpleasant work environments. Your life becomes about work so you have to be realy really interested in the upstream industry.

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