Schlumberger Reviews in Aberdeen, Scotland

Former Employee – worked at Schlumberger full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good benefits, lots of travel opportunities, early job responsibility. Fast paced and meet lots of various people, colleagues are young and good fun.

Cons – Poor work life balance, predominantly work. Vacations cancelled, promotions delayed. Quick reaction to cutting costs if necessary and only think short term.

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 7 years

Pros – Fixed step training program for technical people is excellent, if not slightly 'overdone'. Steep learning curve which can be hard-going at times but worthwhile in the long run.
Opportunities and responsibilities for graduates and 'freshouts' provides a lot of scope for experience and exposure in various parts of industry.
Respected company-looks good on CV.
'Potential' to get global experience, trasnfers to exotic places with competative international packages and moving between segments & functions is possible.

Cons – High management movement & turnover is policy-and not all management are to the same standard. Bit of a lottery which can impact the workforce dramatically.
Although a technical career progression 'roadmap' is in place, in reality once the fixed step training is completed, individuals do not get enough time to focus on personal development. Revenue comes first.
Recent 'crew change' within industry has impacted motivation and retention, being met with lots of words but little action.
Renumeration still lagging behind operators for local staff. 'Paper' reasons to stay are not realised.
A culture of 'I came here for the training'-many don't see a career in the company beyond G11/GFE.

Advice to Senior Management – Make sure your managers are cut out for the job. Not just on paper. Culture, management style, language/communication-PEOPLE SKILLS seemed to fall by the wayside in preference of a manager who had better revenue results.
Value your experienced people. REALLY value them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger full-time for more than a year

Pros – initial training was good
potential to make good money

Cons – working constant rotation of 3 weeks at offshore rig/ 1 week at home/office
Days at office are considered as "off days"
Too much to learn too quickly
thrown in at deep end
Clients at rigsite take out hatred for schlumberger on you.
All other service hands hate you
Redicoulus nanny culture
The hardest part of the job is the self imposed "schlumbeger way of doing it"
Redicoulous amount of paperwork
If your a specialist be ready to do same job as the guy next to you for half the money

Advice to Senior Management – Sort out the rotations!!!! people cant work these rediculous schedules you give them!! this is why everyone leaves and your shorthanded and give the next generation worse schedules so they too will in turn leave!! break the cycle.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Money, travel(at times), and respect in the industry

Cons – Personal professional life balance, working hrs

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 – Fantastic travel opportunities. Very good pay. Equipment very technical and evolving.

Cons – Do not believe the promises at the interview. Relocation to Aberdeen for UK roles. Difficult to get vacation. Fussy about expenses. Upper management don't see employees as human.

Advice to Senior Management – Could do with some give and take. DUring a recent pay cut management can be quoted as saying 'Schlumberger is not a charity'. But the profits of the company keep on climbing rapidly.

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 – Credibility in the industry...fantastic training, responsibility given at a very early stage that dwarfs anywhere else...Diversity in roles/ frequent changes etc (each new job can be like a totally new company).... the list goes on

Cons – Constant change, tough work/ life balance, little respect for geographical stability/ consistency... far too politically correct (in terms of gender promotion etc) ahead of the right people

Advice to Senior Management – accept the world is changing and that the old Schlumberger model is not necessarily fit for purpose today everywhere!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger

Pros – Multi-cultural workforce, opportunities to travel and have diverse job opportunities within the company

Cons – Often work weekends and public holidays

Advice to Senior Management – Do more to recognise the value of older and more exprerienced employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger

Pros – Everyone bangs on about the training being so good but really the course content ( for surface well test and DST at least) was very poor. There is a big focus on training though and they have a reputation for being good so it looks good on your cv.

Cons – very little time off,
 too much focus on HSE not enough on the actual practicalities of the work.
people are considered competent as long as they have "ticked the boxes" it is not difficult to get the boxes ticked.
lack of fairness regarding promotions an " if your face fits " scenario.
corporate structure changes very frequently
stereotypical schlumberger employee is brain washed and an doesnt know how things "really work" there is some truth to this stereotype

Advice to Senior Management – completely review ilearn/LMS content so that upon completion people are competent in required disciplines.

reduce amount of administrative task targets ie. rirs intouch, rite , ilearn, quest so much guff to get through before you even begin your actual job.

offer proper rotations not 6 weeks on 3 weeks off that is just laughable !. if you offer a rotation stick to it or compensate for extra time worked.

Former Employee – worked at Schlumberger

Pros – You can travel all over the world, work with different cultures, get paid plenty of money, gain experience very quickly. A good place to get your foot in the door in the oil industry but don't stay too long or the door will close behind you.

Cons – You are overworked and overstressed. Internationals are on a 6-day per week contract, and the phone never stops ringing. You have to make your boss happy and the client happy at all times which can be conflicting at times. The industry in some ways looks down on service companies as a second tier job.

Advice to Senior Management – There is too much of the top down management style, with no bottom up feedback. Young engineers are promoted too early to management positions and become poor bosses... therefore leading to poor morale.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend