Baker Hughes Reviews

Pros

Good employees are there, despite change in "atmosphere"

Cons

Management took a downward spin

Advice to Senior Management

Don't forget about the staff. Don't forget the core principles. Don't forget to appreciate everyone.

Pros

flexible work environment - family friendly

Cons

slow to catch up with industry trends in Corporate aspects

Advice to Senior Management

Change is good

Pros

BHI develops states-of-art downhole technology and tools.

Cons

Slow to catch up with major competitors

Advice to Senior Management

Keep talented people

Pros

- Great pay
-Great experience
- Great people

Cons

Long hours
Felt like a fish in a big sea.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work

Pros

BH is very famous company.It has alot of services in the petroleum field. Engineers work there are very profissional.

Cons

hard work to achieve our goals

Advice to Senior Management

no offer or advice

Pros

Better pay compared to other servicing companies. Flexibility, knowledge acquisition and sharing etc

Cons

HR needs to be a little more organised

Advice to Senior Management

Pls stick with ur core values: SITPL

Pros

Relative freedom to define job and responsibilities, some interesting technical challenges. Good pension plan, ok medical and dental benefits. One of the big three oilfield service companies, so mobility and career possibilities are not bad.

Cons

Dysfunctional organization structure within the IT organization makes it very difficult to get anything done, and it requires a very large effort to get things moving. IT management's leadership style is autocratic. Some of the processes are archaic.

Advice to Senior Management

There is a plethora of tools, but little in the way of knowledge or training for using them properly. Reduce the number of tools, and get the best ones implemented properly. The HR tools for appraisals and job requisitions are the worst I have seen. The 3 IT groups involved in every project step on each other's toes, and hinder rather than help.

Pros

Benefits/salary and company "well known" name

Cons

Not everyone is treated fairly due to politics, needs to have a hard nose coming in.

Advice to Senior Management

Employee quarterly review and the 2010 Employee/upper management open hierarchy communication needs to be look upon again

Pros

(+) Wide array of service portfolio from upstream to downstream. Opportunities to endeavor other product line is feasible, retaining talents within the organization.
(+) Interaction with management and client
(+) Product line based training

Cons

(-) Job (mis)match is 'adversely affected by economics', so they speak. In their current talent acquisition system for fresh graduates (e.g. LEAD), some talents might not be channeled towards product lines that where they can fully harness their background.
(-) Assigned career managers might not be able to monitor progress of their talents in the program (e.g. LEAD).

Advice to Senior Management

The system is beautifully crafted, a system that drew me into the organization when it was made known to me. Use it, optimize it.

Pros

respect for employees and their needs

Cons

There is a lot of internal politics

Advice to Senior Management

There is a system in place for employee performance review, pls use them!