SLB reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(11,625 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 11,625 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 Energia, mineração, utilitários industry (3.7 stars).

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12K reviews
3.0
Feb 25, 2012
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Multicultural environment; 2. Training; 3. Technology; 4. There are extremely competent managers and employees; 5. Challenging; 6. Long term relationships, which increase the possibility of making true friends at work; 7. Lots of travel; 8. Lots of parties.

Cons

1. Too much pressure; 2. 14/15 hours a day is not enough; 3. Forget about personal life, work is all in your life from day 1; 4. Dual career maybe a problem when you have to swallow an incompetent manager because of his/her partner; 5. Support employees are underestimated, even if they are clearly 10 times better than operations guys; 6. Operations do not plan, do not understand that bureaucracy is a way of life in Latin America. Not planning, only increases pressure and enhances the likelihood of mistakes; 7. Bad payer in comparison to some competitors; 8. All the good job done in years may vanish if your manager do get along with you. SLP3 (annual appraisal) is torn and your work history is erased. You may become the worst employee ever, even if 19 out of 20 previous managers had you were above expectations.

3.0
Nov 15, 2021

Plenty of opportunities for hard workers that achieve financial results

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great opportunities for those working hard and achieving financial results Multiple locations around the world, diverse workforce Strong culture, people feel proud of working there

Cons

Terrible in people management (lack of psychological safety among employees, employees constantly afraid of being fired, does not foster innovation outside of HQ, diversity exists but inclusion does not happen, e.g. there are limited women at senior positions, there is a clear preference for French nationals)

2.0
Jan 25, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

If you are single or divorced man, without any plans for future, this job is for you!!!

Cons

Absolutely no proper planning from line management! Field staff treated like slaves: embarking for 28 days, disembarking and after 2-3 days going offshore again! Very often people in the field do several things at the same time.., no sleep, no money no heath! Shame, for the company like that treat their people like assets!!!

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