BJ Services Reviews

Pros

alot of money 2 be made

Cons

no home time at all

Pros

Good benefits; nice working place; good training programsl if you are an expat - you will be treated like a king - even if your skills are minimal

Cons

Rules and policies are not strictly enforced; salary might be less than competitors but compensated by having good working environment; bias towards career promotions

Advice to Senior Management

Create opportunity to have more career paths within the company.
Do your due diligence in evaluating employees properly
Perks are less than competitors

Pros

benefits package, training, relocation package, partial tuition pay

Cons

100+hrs, unorganized programs, never receiving promised benefits

Advice to Senior Management

be respectful of employees both above and below

Pros

Great way to earn money quick, some weeks I was in overtime after two days of work, but keep in mind that it is a high stress and dangerous job.

Cons

the program I was hired into was cancelled, I was one month away from completing the training!!

Advice to Senior Management

You make some rules that look good on the surface but to transfer those to the field setting just doesn't work. Safety is a top priority but some of your rules put you into a more dangerous position than one should be in.

Pros

Money and Benefits were OK
Severence Package when Laid off after 4 years was decent (1 week/year pay + unused vacation and 3 month extension of Medical)

Cons

Personal contribution to business success completely unrelated to bonus
Very little management support
Poor product performance
Penny wise and Pound foolish

Advice to Senior Management

We spent an enormous amount of time on safety training and a class defining Value Added Profits. We spent ZERO time targeting new business, new products, and markets, Basically, as long as you stayed sober and never had an accident, no one noticed you were alive.

Pros

BJ Services Nigeria is good for starters as a learning place for future professionals.

Cons

BJ services Nigeria pays very low salaries compared to competitors like schlumberger and Halliburton.

Advice to Senior Management

Career advancement and promotions should be fair and done regularly.

Pros

Intensive training program brings new hire engineers into the fold immediately. State of the art training facility in Tomball where engineers take technical classes on products and services that the company offers. They shaved off any hiring fat during the technical courses which shows they are serious about having technically proficient employees and are not afraid to cut their losses.

With the right attitude, an employee will be able to get out of the company the effort he puts into his job. I was able to become proficient in multiple service lines which has been a launching point for my career beyond BJ. The beginning salary and benefits are much better than most offers for engineering grads (non-petroleum).

The company is well respected and I never felt that knowledge was a secret. The technology the company had allowed me to experience cutting edge applications and operations in the field.

Cons

You will become stagnant in the position you are in. Your success and career advancement are not always based on your accomplishments or technical capacity. On the same hand that you will get out of what you put into the job, when you go the extra mile and make family sacrifices for the benefit of the company, you are not always rewarded or even recognized. Once you are successful in a position that is hard to fill if you are promoted, management severely limits your promotion opportunities.

Management was quick to cut the job bonuses for engineers which is what made the job worth the time you invested into it. The job bonus program was a joke and its basis is ethically questionable. Engineers are able to self report job bonuses based on their own performance and I found that some of my peers did not have the same integrity that I did. It was completely frustrating.

Advice to Senior Management

I understand that tough times call for unpopular decisions. I watched many hard working, good people laid off with seemingly no remorse. In a large corporation, golden parachutes and corporate survival by sticking it to the little man will continue as long as capitalism. None of that angered me about the company at all.

What pisses me off and drove me away from the company was the disconnect management had from the widget producing employee. When I am working 100+ hours a week in the most profitable district in the company and there are engineers sitting on their ass working 35 hours a week making the same amount I am while their district hemorrhages money, something is wrong.

The company needs to learn to grow and foster their best talent. They also need to learn to compensate their employees based on their production. You do not have to rope all engineers into one category or wage scale. Recognize who is producing the most and compensate them accordingly.

Pros

The Engineers are laid back and great to work with.
Im not micro managed like other places
The place is laid back and quite to work at

Cons

Some Engineers/Managers are pushy with there work and want there's before anyone elses.
When you ask for something like time off or other they act like you never busted your butt for them.
Those few people don't really show a true apriciation for you.
A few send you to others cus they dont want the reposibility.
Some people are lazy and management doesn't do anything, then you get stuck with there work sometimes.

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of your employees and don't take them for granted, because other wise your works going to sit in the pile.

Pros

Normal working hours for the most part. Good health benefits, decent 401(k) matching.

Cons

Management style is dictatorial, based on tearing employees down.

Advice to Senior Management

You get catch more bees with honey than with vinegar. Build employees up, offer cost of living wage increases, pay bonuses to employees other than top management.

Pros

The Pay is rather good

Cons

No home live to speak of and bad working conditions make this place hell

Advice to Senior Management

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