SLB reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(11,650 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 11,650 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
5.0
Nov 7, 2013
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good experience, meet new people, learn new thing, great benefits. GREAT career path.

Cons

Long hours, low base pays(however your day rates are good and double after you break out as a specialist).

3.0
Jul 2, 2013
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Schlumberger heavily invests in training it's employees - training centers are renowned in the industry. Pretty flexible with career progression Great co-workers - very diverse, interesting and fun people Compensated well - I have heard of people complaining about pay being less than some competitors, but then again how much money does a person really need? Benefits are pretty good A lot of room for movement in between services (lateral movement) Prove yourself by making it to year 3 and it gets better. .

Cons

-Horrible work/life compromise, I worked North America Land and regularly worked 3-4 weeks on with only 3 days or less time off in-between jobs. -In field work, there are no shifts, you work until the job is done. This can result in working 60+ hours non-stop if things end up going wrong (and get up hours later for the next "shift"). -Turnover rate and expendability of employees in an downturn. -Employees commonly joke about the guiding principles of SLB are People, Technology and Profit; but the way the business is run, however, is Profit, Technology, People.

1.0
Jun 26, 2013
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The only good thing about SLB is being an engineer. They are treated as premadonna's and are the ones who will let the company to be ran into the ground.

Cons

Engineers with very little exposure to operations in the field are being promoted to positions of authority. It is assummed that because the have an education they are above the ones who have worked for many years to be educated in the entire operation and not just a small portion.

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