10 years with Schlumberger - Anonymous employee SLB Employee Review

4.0
23 Feb 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I started in the US, then had a chance to work overseas. It was a great way to live in a half-dozen places around the US/world and work with all sorts of people also from around the world. The work was challenging and the job role was always changing with every transfer because even when my title stayed the same, the challenges had to be solved with a now different set of resources in each new location. Compensation while I was in the US was OK at best. While working overseas, I thought it was very generous, but that's from my perspective as someone without a family. To work in some places without one's family would not be for most people.

Cons

This is the oilfield and this is a service company. If you work in a field location, you are always on call. Maybe not explicitly so, but there is always the lurking chance that something will happen like a last-minute client request and then everyone scrambles to please the client. In the end, the lifestyle was my biggest reason for leaving. It was a fun way to spend my 20s gallivanting around the world, but it became far less enjoyable in my 30s.

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1.0
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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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