SLB reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(11,651 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 11,651 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
4.0
Jul 21, 2012
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great Pay Lots of exciting traveling all paid for by the company 17% flat tax when working international 6 weeks on 3 weeks off in remote location (almost never honored, but the days off accumulate) Challenging A lot of responsibility from the beginning Tons of great training Working with people from all different countries and different backgrounds When you get a difficult job done, it can feel very rewarding

Cons

Very difficult to maintain any kind of work-life balance. The more work you can handle, the more they will give you until you eventually brake. Any small mistake can end up being your last with the company Management, more-so the industry, forgets that we are people, not robots Lack of sleep sometimes or any kind of sleep schedule No set work-on, work-off schedule - it all depends on what's going on - very difficult to plan anything You end up missing big events with your family & friends such as weddings and group vacations Difficult to keep a healthy relationship with girlfriend/spouse

3.0
Jul 11, 2012

The Good, The Bad and The UGLY

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to meet some smart people. The recruiting department is amazing. They know whom to pick. One will be awestruck with the amount of talent the company has. If you are right out of college, great place to learn a lot. The engineering systems are amazing and the set up is right for engineering success. Great training opportunities.. Good place of you want to learn more

Cons

If you dont know to play the GAME, forget about career growth. Manager is your GOD, if you are not in his good books you cant step out of the department and also your promotions are a road block. They have this stupid program called ADVANCE which will restrict your career growth for the first three years in an event you dont finish it on time. Your manager dont necessarily give you time to prepare for that. Higher management is isolated from what you do on the floor. They only care for numbers .. You are a number unless you are counting numbers .. Benefits were good but now it is not so great. Bad Place for mid careers , no development for you out there.. Very stressful work environment.. A lot of French politics (unreasonable politics).. HR department is the worst department, they dont do sqat other than recruiting and providing you with forms .. Bad place if you want your company to grow with your inputs .. Middle management does not give $HT about u ..

4.0
Jul 3, 2012
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good people, Decient pay, a few perks like Campany discounts almost anywhere.

Cons

For most Technicians at the sugarland Location, it is very hard to get a promotion. It took me three years with steller reviews to get my last one. I ended up finding another job before they could make me a better offer to stay.

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