Is SLB a good company to work for?

SLB has an overall rating of 3.9 out of 5, based on over 15,089 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 74% of employees would recommend working at SLB to a friend and 60% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about SLB have been left by employees working as Estagiário Superior , Estagiário and Field Engineer .

Does SLB pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, SLB employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at SLB. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at SLB?

74% of SLB employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated SLB 3.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.8 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at SLB?

Field Engineer (922) , Intern (329) , Engineer (257) , Mechanical Engineer (222) , Internship (203) , Software Engineer (195) , Field Specialist (169) , Project Manager (169) , Wireline Field Engineer (119) , Senior Field Engineer (113) , Procurement Specialist (96) , Manufacturing Engineer (90) , Manager (73) , Geophysicist (70) , Financial Analyst (69)

What are the pros of working at SLB according to real employee reviews?

"Benefit is good and competitive with other oil and gas service provider for supply chain position." ((in 822 reviews)); "Training is good and useful" ((in 713 reviews)); "The pay is good for my position and department at $21.63/hour plus overtime pay." ((in 696 reviews)); "Salary is good and livable" ((in 526 reviews)); "People are great and intelligent" ((in 492 reviews))

What are the cons of working at SLB according to real employee reviews?

"no inspiration in the lab setting everything was based on work completed and no work life balance." ((in 845 reviews)); "2) Some times people are abused because of business needs or poor management (managers fault) or oil crisis" ((in 437 reviews)); "long hours and lots of extrernal and internal pressure" ((in 246 reviews)); "Bad managers get away with breaking all the policies and rules and the ethics line is useless." ((in 235 reviews)); "Very tough and no life balance" ((in 135 reviews))

What are employees saying about SLB layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about SLB layoffs and their outlook for job security at SLB in 2026.

What are the top reviewed SLB locations?

Macaé , Rio de Janeiro , Aracaju , São José dos Pinhais , Taubaté , Catu , Salvador , São Paulo , Manaus , São Mateus , Sergipe , Curitiba , Nossa Senhora do Socorro , Rio das Ostras , Buenos Aires , Fortaleza , Boa Vista , Vila Velha , São José dos Campos , Brasília , Belo Horizonte , Simões Filho , Brasileira

SLB reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(11,634 total reviews)

Olivier Le Peuch

84% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.2

Diversity & inclusion

3.9

Culture & values

3.9

Compensation and benefits

3.8

Career opportunities

3.4

Work/Life balance

3.4

Senior management

SLB has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 11,634 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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Reviews by job title

12K reviews

5.0

Feb 12, 2015

Like a bad dream, started great.

Wireline field engineer

Recommend

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Pros

Great training, well established program to teach you the industry and especially your segment. Solid benefits, Some amazing hard working people, I was lucky to have a good, understanding FSM (manager) but heard horror stories about all others. If you're a female, and can withstand the rig culture, you have an edge over male employees. The company likes to please the female engineers as they are rare. Unfortunately it ends there...

Cons

Hostile and unprofessional work environment, High turnover of engineers, Stressful, physically demanding (knew this going in, but it took its toll much faster than I expected) Salary and bonus on continuous decline, and not great to begin with either! Cover your own butt and blame others/point the finger type of culture, The company has strong safety policies but they are ignored after training, came close to shattering my knee and breaking an ankle in only 2 months.

2.0

Jun 29, 2014

BIG money and that's it

Field engineer

Recommend

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Pros

BIG bucks AMAZING, high end training schools where you get to learn a lot meet a lot of fun people. And, make great friends Personal growth in terms of crisis management, ownership and responsibility (even for things you are not responsible for, oh yeah!). Can get admitted to good B-schools

Cons

No major addition to your profile, provided you want to move out of Oil & Gas sector Very few exit options Monkey job No work life balance, barely any social life other than the SLB social gatherings HIGH level of unpredictability in life, you never know where you are gonna be the next moment. Be it your sibling's marriage or maybe your own! Blame game

3.0

Jun 3, 2014

A good way to start a career BUT They own you! Prepare to leave after a few years

Positioning seismic engineer

Recommend

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Pros

Great trainings, very professional, organised, takes HSE seriously, they ensure that you know everything about your job to the running principles and physics fundamentals.

Cons

They own you. Ridiculous learning modules that takes up your time during off shift, makes you go through stupid G11 control programme along with a one year project that must benefit the company. Better off doing a 1 year Masters programme for yourself! Not compassionate, too appraisal driven, harassment policy is a joke, if you report they turn it around and blame you for it! The worst salary in the industry of seismic. Fast track seismic engineer programme is a real joke, trying to make managers in 3 years and make you work a like a dog. 5 weeks on board, 3 weeks office time and less than 2 weeks off ?! Work 8 weeks and MAYBE 2 weeks off.

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