Schlumberger Reviews

Pros

Schlumberger is the company with a good, health and dynamic atmosphere. Different ability for carrier growth in all part of the world only if you are active and ready to work hard. Multinational team is a good place for job in friendly environment.

Cons

Job is there where is the client, that mean that you need to change your country, location, friends and cities.

Pros

opportunities, career, management, learning, assignments

Cons

less recognition due to large number of employees

Pros

Recent college grads get a lot of varied responsibility early on- carry out high price contracts with clients, manage operators, maintain millions of dollars of equipment.

Cons

The schedule is very isolating, its hard to maintain healthy relationships with anybody outside of work. Many of the managers are incompetent.

Advice to Senior Management

No everyone should be an FSM in their career, it would help to be a little it more selective when placing people in management.

Pros

Brilliant engineering
Highly skilled engineers
diversity of people and background

Cons

Recognition
Management of project
seniority technical career

Advice to Senior Management

More respect for employees

Pros

Clear career path if you want to be a manager, if not it's less clear cut. Plenty of training, up-to-date equipment.

Cons

Contracts very dependent on economy, in Indonesia Schlumberger is considered premium services so not all the segments are doing well.

Pros

Exposure to multicultural environment with high chance to be based in different parts of the world.
Rewarding job.
Wide opportunities to develop the career inside the company.

Cons

Poor work/life balance, especially for field employees.
Complicated procedures and policies.
Being in a service company you will get pressurized from two sides, the client and the management which most of the time it will be really stressful.

Advice to Senior Management

Trying to safe money by minimizing people count will only create future problem from employee resignation due to poor work/life balance.

Pros

Challenging engineering jobs in Oil services, that compensate well. Truly Global firm, exposure to multiple cultures and rigorous work environments.

Cons

Niche expertise, few exit options, extended field working times, very cyclical market, low tolerance levels, higher management not competent in personnel management.

Advice to Senior Management

More focus on personnel management and better work schedules, employ measures to find out employee satisfaction with the help of 3rd party auditors.

Pros

A lot of potential to earn decent money in busy times. SLB provides young engineers a great opportunity to manage people.

Cons

Schlumberger is an ok company but the support and backing for the field personnel is non-existent. This is a CYA first second and last type of place, which limits the effectiveness of the company's true principles.

Advice to Senior Management

Management to place strong and competent managers in leadership roles, esp. in locations with increasing attrition rates. I was sold on the company during recruiting, accepted the challenge of the job, excelled, and now I am moving on. I don't see the opportunities I was sold on upon my hire.

Pros

technology, people, work and personal life balance

Cons

promotions are limited as in most corporations

Pros

They have good internal training if you can find the time to get to it! There is a solid path for internal promotion for technical personnel.

Cons

Mid level management seems to rotate in and out on assignment, no product strategy other then short term goals. Meetings and corporate required objectives for training and overbearing safety system for office areas really distract from work.

Advice to Senior Management

All levels at my site seem to need to listen too (not just talk at) technical staff. Limit amount of meetings was up to 5 meetings a day at one point!