Great company to work for - Anonymous employee SLB Employee Review

4.0
26 Feb 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are lot of highly intelligent, very interesting and hardworking people who are fun to work with. Excellent Training Programs. Potentially unlimited career opportunities. International assignments. Competitive compensation package.

Cons

A lot of people with poor or no managerial skills promoted to managers positions. As result such managers cannot motivate, inspire their teams and be a true leaders. Instead those managers don't care about people and little care about business but only care about their own objectives in order to achieve highest appraisal mark and move on. Schlumberger will be excellent company for you if you will have an excellent manager - open, honest, supportive, motivating, knowledgeable, inspiring and connected to his team, which is rare compare to selfish and egocentric careerists. Schlumberger lies about dual career support. It does not exist. Very difficult to achieve satisfactory work-life balance especially if you manage dual career in the family.

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Pros

benefits, vacation, 401k, I love working for SLB

Cons

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1.0
17 Jun 2026
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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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