SLB Project Manager reviews

The company culture is very fickle. It seems like things are always changing: job positions, management structure, rules, policies, standards. In a technology development center this constant change is very disruptive and annoying. Most people I know have not stayed in any given office for more than a year. Additionally, there is a clear lack of overall resources. Most employees are doing several jobs at once: shipping packages one day, ordering supplies another day, traveling to a field location the next day, and writing a technical report a few days after that. If you like the feel of a startup, you'll get it here. This constant change means that no process is ever efficient and nobody has the time to do anything but get the big fires under control, which can be very stressful. It's not just the economy in 2009 that has caused it since this culture existed long before, although it has made it much worse.

Very Machiavellian environment and only for the thick-skinned. Not the kind of stress an employee needs in addition to what they are trying to accomplish. The "gray hair" older contingent don't understand the younger, more competent employees. Very professor/student in the relationships instead of a true team environment. Management will move you around the world. Don't think you can "choose" where you want to go. And they will chew you up and spit you out if you don't leave before they can. Simple as that.