Halliburton Reviews

Pros

They give you a lot of responsibility.
If you have a good boss, he will give you goals and objectives and allow you to use your own initiative to acheive them.
They have some of the best people in the world.

Cons

They provide "social promotions" to some executives to give them experience in areas that they know nothing about. If your manager changes he is probably going to bring in people who support him unconditionally and change out the existing people who might challenge him.

Advice to Senior Management

Understand what the people under you really do. Don't assume what qualifications are really required to do a job well until you understand what that job requires. Don't promote people into positions who don't have the right background or leadership qualities needed for that group to excel.

Pros

Schedule of 10 days on and 4 days off

Cons

Management isn't that great. No direction

Pros

Very competitive pay.
Open work environment- core hours with flexible hours of staying later or coming in early.
A large variety of positions.

Cons

This refers to IT Management:
Lack of leadership and communication.
No vision as to what the IT organization should be.
No accountability.
Unrealistic expectations about how teams can work.

Advice to Senior Management

Figure out what IT should look like and communicate it to the whole organization.

Pros

Looks great on a resume

Incredible training opportunities

Lots of smart driven people, finding a good mentor is recommended

Cons

Technical salaries are not very market competitive, no pension, 401K matching is good, health benefits are standard - I've had better.

No flextime. Everyone works incredibly long hours. I feel that if I'm not on Communicator at least every 8 hours (whether I work or not) it's noticed. CEO sent email reminding employees of work hours and that working from home doesn't count. I take conference calls early mornings and late nights but do it from home.

New and replacement programs/applications are implemented by folks high up and the everyday users are not tapped for input. We just have to live with inferior technology.

Very political, if you aren't in the clique, you aren't moving up. Managers are often rude and demeaning. Not many opportunites for minorities. It is a very "white" organization.

Too many processes in place. Hard to get anything done in a reasonable amount of time. Heavily matrixed organization. Nothing happens overnight unless you have an executives ear...

Advice to Senior Management

Fix your new employee onboarding process - it took so long for my first day to get here, I almost accepted another position and have heard the same from other new employees. As with most large organizations, favortisim is an issue, make sure your management is competent and ethical - not just attractive. This companyis a leader in many areas of it's operation on a global scale and attracts high technical perfomance driven individuals. You owe it to your employees to have managers in place that foster a fair and pleasing work environment. I'm most productive when I'm happy and I think most people are.

Pros

good benifits and vacatons. They seem to really care about their employees, it just seems that I was placed with a lousy supervisor.

Cons

it's sad to know that with virtually any job even a corporate one that you have to haggle to get your pay . You aparantly can't state your pay and them accept or deny infront of you they just say that trust me you'll be making way more than you did at your last job.

Advice to Senior Management

i was lied to by my pgl (supervisor) about what my pay was going to be when I was hired on. Then we had no overtime wich he said was in over abundance which was only true for the first month. I also had issues with a single coworker, in which every one has, and it went as far as things getting physical for my pgl to seperate us after I repeatedly asked him to help solve the problem. I don't know what to advise other than have responsible people become supervisors, not sometime that is just qualified.

Pros

Opportunity to work on technically challenging problems
Certain level of autonomy

Cons

Frequent changes in management
Sometimes management Lacks llong Term vision
Process for promotions needs improvement

Advice to Senior Management

Have long term vision

Pros

International work, good benefits, supply work attire

Cons

Management expects the field personnel to put our families on hold while we work long hitches to support the overselling of jobs and they will not hire more personnel to cover the work load.

Advice to Senior Management

Start hiring and training or you are going to lose the people that you depend on to keep your little group afloat.

Pros

This location is not in a big city. Their are quite a few good people to work with.

Cons

no raises based on your work. lied to about recieving bonuses. filthy commuter vehicle transportation. a few hours of sleep each night. they'll hire anybody. i mean anybody. Having to drive company vehicles with minimal sleep. Horrible pay with poor future raises.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay the workers that work. They have families too.

Pros

Large Organization that has Global presence and large Diversity. offers some carrer development and supports health, safety and environmental awareness.

Cons

Politics Control career development of managers and above. US centralized operation which limits the opportunities of non-US employees and diversity in management.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen More to younger and mid career employees.. Work on creating faith with staff by removing the crust of seniors that block innovation and development of others.. allow for employees to compete for career and not just chose the ones you already know..!!

Pros

Challenging work. Flexible working hours.

Cons

Pay package. Job rotation. Promotion.

Advice to Senior Management

Job rotation if the employee is not happy at the current position and pay package.