Top heavy, mafia organization structure with limited growth potential and blatant discrimination. - Senior Engineer SLB Employee Review

2.0
Oct 26, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Worldwide presence with employees from a diverse background, allowing you to work in a multicultural environment. Great fixed step training at the beginning of your career, and reasonable relocation opportunities if mobile. Compensation is on par with other service companies in the industry, especially for those who are International Mobile and have families (housing, schooling, etc.).

Cons

Management is a mafia structure, with progression strictly restricted based on who you know in the company. Whilst growth, promotion, and career choices are shown as performance based, this is not the case. Core values of the company are forgotten under the current management, and is evident from how the company handles the downturn - laid off thousands of revenue generating employees based on compensation (employees with families were cut first, independent of performance), whilst little-to-no changes were made with management. Finally, after three full years from downturn, when an entire management tier was eliminated, they were simply restructured around and not reduced. Benefits are being reduced every quarter; however, dependent on level in organization.

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5.0
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Pros

benefits, vacation, 401k, I love working for SLB

Cons

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1.0
Jun 17, 2026
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Pros

Good people at the local level. The work is engaging and challenging.

Cons

Too many to count. Career advancements are extremely limited. Pay raises are minimal and don't get close to keeping up with inflation even for top performers. At the corporate level they are using acquisitions to hide massive layoffs. They return billions in profit to investors consistently, but there is still a constant threat of layoffs and multiyear freezes on pay raises even with inflation and solid corporate profit.

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