SLB reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(11,626 total reviews)
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Olivier Le Peuch

84% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

SLB has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 11,626 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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12K reviews
4.0
May 4, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good tools, interesting challenges, flexi-hours. Management at location generally very good, compensation good. Training opportunities in new technologies has improved in recent years.

Cons

Oil company...they don't appear to have a strategy to grow the company beyond oil & gas. Very short term vision, no mention of moving into renewable's or anything outside current expertise. Low morale at the moment after lots of job cuts. Training requirement for senior hires and PhD's (from outside oil background) can be frustrating to say the least.

2.0
Mar 13, 2017

Toxic pressure-cooker environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Decent salary and benefits. 2. Lots of technical experts around to learn from. 3. Respected (although often not liked by clients) brand name.

Cons

Too many to list here but the main ones are: 1. Very top-heavy company. No room for creativity, thinking outside the box, or challenging the status quo. 'Do as we say or else' type of dictatorship. 2. If you're not constantly contributing to the bottom line in some way, you're gone. Nothing else matters here but huge profits. 3. As a result of #1-2 above, expect most middle/senior management (as well as some long-time regular employees) to fit the classic 'corporate psychopath' profile who are only concerned with covering their own rears and looking like stars to their management. Most management here in general seems to lack basic social skills and only tends to see their staff as walking dollar signs rather than as human beings. 4. As a result of #1-3 above, the working environment is super-toxic to the point of people actually ducking their heads down at their cubicles when their manager walks past them. This toxicity becomes infinitely worse when the oil price is in a slump, as is the case now. 5. As a result of #1-4 above, morale is non-existent, or foul at best, with no attempt by anyone whatsoever to remedy the situation. Conclusion: Don't bother working here unless you're looking to turn into a corporate psychopath yourself.

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