SLB reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(11,641 total reviews)
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Olivier Le Peuch

84% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

SLB has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 11,641 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SLB employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energía, minería e infraestructura pública industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Dec 13, 2012

Egyptian Slave Labor

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Pros

Interesting Work - Loved the job Excellent trining program

Cons

Loved the work I was doing; but a miserable job experience. The corporate culture mimics the Egyptian slave labor system used for building the pyramids- work you till you drop, unhook your body, and hook up a fresh worker. Poor life balance- their corporate literature is great, but the reality does not resemble the ideals Schlumberger has on paper. Overwhelming work load, with no overtime allowed, forces you to "work off the books" with unbilled overtime. Many employees are no longer acruing vacation time, because they are maxed out, yet the work load won't permit time off. Great health benefits, but if you want to keep up with the workload, no time for doctor's appointments. Their literature repeatedly stresses the importance of health and life balance, but it's just not possible.

1.0
Oct 16, 2012
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Pros

initial training was good potential to make good money

Cons

working constant rotation of 3 weeks at offshore rig/ 1 week at home/office Days at office are considered as "off days" Too much to learn too quickly thrown in at deep end Clients at rigsite take out hatred for schlumberger on you. All other service hands hate you Redicoulus nanny culture The hardest part of the job is the self imposed "schlumbeger way of doing it" Redicoulous amount of paperwork If your a specialist be ready to do same job as the guy next to you for half the money

4.0
Oct 5, 2012

Operations manager

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Pros

Great team, the best technology, great training with good support to deliver solutions to the client base

Cons

Sqeezing employees to bring cost down, internally focused company that gets bogged in process to often rendering opportunitys to help employee and clents negatively impacted. From 20-40 year old the team is motivated.......pass40 moral drops.......especially recent acquisition employee

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