Schlumberger Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Technology challenges, interesting projects, good funding

Cons – Low pay, bureucracy, lack of control over career

Advice to Senior Management – Inrease compensation. Atrition rate is too high

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Schlumberger full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great training, good benefits, and the ability to see the world (with the minimal time off you have)

Cons – Most engineers were quite incompetent, and SLB continues to promote the weak. Safety is such a big factor that it almost becomes detrimental to work and the main objective is lost. (Remember nothing ruins fun like safety.) Most engineers are miserable and the moral is low. Everyone talks about when they will quit and what bigger things they will go on to do. You are basically working with the beaten dogs that keep on coming back. There are quite few "good" engineers that stick around because they are the ones that realize they can be making the same money while enjoying life. If you are considering a job or are new, watch the more rigorous disciplines, like MEs and EEs, they are usually the first engineers to quit. Pay is the only real motivator. Any competent engineer would realize the job is quite boring and mundane. Granted the first couple months are exciting, after your training the job is repetitive and insulting to a four year degree engineer.

Advice to Senior Management – You all do very well with your business model. Profits can be realized while having such low morale amongst the work force. Treat your employees like numbers, some will stick around after being pressured (most likely the ones with weak backbones and limited potential) and the ones with quality are quite often gone before GFE. SLB's structure is one of amazing feat. I hope SLB has back up plans when oil no longer becomes the prime source of transportation energy.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - laid back
- process oriented

Cons – - cheap company
- lay offs

Advice to Senior Management – - start spending money on your employees; better yet stop cutting from employee benefits

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Availability of professional development, bonuses are decided based on completion of objectives that are mutually decided on by the employee and the manager. Everyone starts out with 3 weeks of paid vacation.

Cons – After the 3 year training program is over, it's difficult to manage carreer progression.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Schlumberger provides a diverse work atmosphere. There are so many cultures within the company to learn from.

Cons – Within the company I found there to be slow growth opportunities

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Schlumberger full-time for more than 7 years

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 ..

Advice to Senior Management – Look at your company on the floor level as well .. Your success comes from there and not because you can re organize your management. Middle management is horrible.. who promoted them ?

Former Employee – worked at Schlumberger full-time for more than a year

Pros – 1. In general, very smart colleagues to work with.
2. Working environment is excellent, individual office.
3. Lots of seminars and talks if one want to broaden ones horizon.

Cons – 1. The pay is very average and pay raise may be stagnant because of the training program Advance.
2. A lot of side-activities, such as training or metier learning and use lots of working time.
3. Transfer policies makes it hard for employees with families.
4. Your career is totally in the control of your manager.

Advice to Senior Management – The transfer policy bothers a lot of employees. The management should move those who are willing to move and leave those who are not mobile. Don't make people feel like they have to move.

The training and learning process is more than necessary.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Schlumberger full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good pay. got to see a lot of the U.S.

Cons – working 110 hours a week and only getting paid for forty of them. never knowing when you're going to be home. working 48 hour shifts back to back. wake-up calls at 3am to go on a job.

Advice to Senior Management – get some management

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger

Pros – Schlumberger has a very diverse workforce. When I go to lunch, seven of ten at the table were not born in the US. They pick the best employees from all over the world.

There is little to no specialization. As an engineer, I'm not given a small piece of the product to work on, I do the entire design. Although it is very challenging to be able to perform well on all aspects of electronics design, it is also very rewarding.

Cons – In a word, lifestyle. I work from 9-11 hours a day, six days a week and can barely "meet expectations". It is difficult to balance time between work and home.

Advice to Senior Management – Over the years, Schlumberger has been a rewarding place to work. I believe that it's our technical abilities that put us where we are. Reward those who continue to make Schlumberger a leader in the industry.

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger

Pros – The money, training and opportunity for advancement is very good, if you can get out of the field.

Cons – You work 24 hours, live on a rig, sleep very little, and never know when you will have a day off. When you do have a day off, you are afraid whenever your phone rings, because you might have to pack up and go to a job for an unknown amount of time, usually 1 month...might be 3. 24 hours, no weekends, no holidays.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat new employees better and you might be able to improve the turnover rate.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend