Pros
The benefits are outstanding. Great and affordable health insurance, discounted stock purchase, 401k matching, dental and vision. Discounts available for Halliburton employees for everything from vehicle purchase to lasik surgery. This is a good place to get started if you do not have any oilfield experience. But if you do, it will just infuriate you.
Cons
Basic per hour pay is the lowest I have ever had in the oilfield as a CDL Hazmat driver. You are dependent upon overtime to make a decent wage, working 100+ hours a week. When limited to 40 hours a week when work is slow, it is hard to want to come to work. Because of massive layoffs last year, the supervisors that are left are a mixed bag to work with. In general, they do not care about you as an individual employee, only how your physical labor can help them get promoted or get their next bonus. Promotion is easy to obtain with the competency system, but it takes work on your part. No one is going to teach you what you want to know, you have to go after it. You might get a whole $1 an hour raise, putting you still under the oilfield average. The orientation training I went through was sub-par and did little to prepare the new hires for what was really expected of a frac/acid operator.
