rapid growth but poor work life balance - Anonymous employee SLB Employee Review

4.0
2 Jul 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- It gives you the possibility to rapidly escalate into leading or management positions. - High focus on training and career path design. - Competitive salaries

Cons

- It needs to improve the focus on work life balance, specially for office staff. - Management decisions are mostly based on numbers and sometimes without considering the impact on employees.

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1.0
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Pros

Good people at the local level. The work is engaging and challenging.

Cons

Too many to count. Career advancements are extremely limited. Pay raises are minimal and don't get close to keeping up with inflation even for top performers. At the corporate level they are using acquisitions to hide massive layoffs. They return billions in profit to investors consistently, but there is still a constant threat of layoffs and multiyear freezes on pay raises even with inflation and solid corporate profit.

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