Schlumberger Reviews

Pros

Career planning
Technology
Training, mentoring, knowledge sharing, openness
Sr management and colleagues are open and talented
Multi-cultural environment
Travelling around the world, once a year, at least
A company that has money to invest in R&D
HR system (goals, performance evaluation based on goals, etc)
Computer specifics: Scrum Agile, support from very experienced software community
Overall concerns with ethics, people & environment

Cons

Bad / unexperienced manager can challenge your motivation
HR system is not followed many times
People with beautiful background can be "over-recognized", even when their performance is not good
Sr management doesn't want to hear the problems
People from the "field" lives a total different world (hard lifestyle) from the office people
If you want to grow to management side, be prepare to bring work home a lot

Advice to Senior Management

Use HR systems more seriously, choose jr managers more carefully, listen more and don't make promises

Pros

Great people, intelligent, great environment

Cons

Large company with big bureacracys

Advice to Senior Management

enable employees to do their jobs without non-value added ruls.

Pros

Best in IndustryTraining opportunity.
Commitment to diversity.
Equal opportunity irrespective of national origin

Cons

Job Hours, Compensation and benefit, A few incompetent managers at high position who doesn't do much and lack ideas but just talk and can't make decision.

Advice to Senior Management

Not just change things for the sake of change. Need to keep what's working. Need to cut buraucracy.
Need to promote people who can make decision into management and position of responsibility.

Pros

#1 service company in the world
international career opportunities
good benefits
excellent training programs
good career path offers
very diverse population at any location

Cons

since the company is extremely large it`s easy to get lost in the system, one has to push hard to attain what he/she desires from own career.

Advice to Senior Management

I don`t believe management in this company listens to any feedback from its employees.

Pros

Managers are flexible. Mine have been very good at giving me feedback. Your career opportunities are really as big as you want them to be, but you have to work at finding the path.

Cons

There is a tendency to jump from one trendy management program to another. It's not a fatal flaw, but it's annoying. There also seems to be a lack of structure when it comes to bettering yourself in your profession. Schlumberger does have a number professional improvement programs, and they develop them with the best of intentions, but they're often very hard to decipher for the uninitiated, and it takes so much time, you can't figure it out and do your job.

Advice to Senior Management

Your people want to do better. Offer them a straightforward path and clearer direction. Otherwise, I love it here. It's hard to find a better place to work.

Pros

Good team work and job attitude

Cons

sometimes it could be monotonous

Advice to Senior Management

Work on team work

Pros

Good pay, good technology to work with and excellent cooperation amongst co-workers.

Cons

Long hour rig site conditions.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep it up.

Pros

Everyone assessed and rated on the same scale, very challenging work environment.

Cons

Exciting company to work for. However, breaking out of the mid management is tough.

Pros

Pay is good, benefits are great, awesome people to work for. My segment is a smaller segment of SLB, therefore, there is great communication between management and employes.

Cons

On call, not always 30 on 30 off.

Pros

Excellent field experience. Younger co-workers.

Cons

Lots of manual labor and late nights.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your field engineers with a bit more respect.