Schlumberger Reviews

Pros

If you perform, there will be a lot of opportunities

Cons

Because it s a large company, you have to deal with a number of administrative tasks

Pros

international environment, good promotion system, excellent benefits, possibilities to move everywhere in the world, you get to make strong bounds with colleagues

Cons

In Schlumberger your personal life must not be important for you, work-life balance is completely outside of discussion. Work is first

Advice to Senior Management

The nature of the bussiness requires people to work hard, but sometimes I found that management liked to keep everybody in a stress situation just because they could do it.

Pros

Training, travel different countries and meet different people, very good experience that could be achieved for a recent graduate both technical and management skills.

Cons

Field life, long hours, frequent chage of locations, and frequent chage of the direct managers that makes impossible to create your network

Advice to Senior Management

Create a system that includes less frequent transfers and understand that after some time in the career people needs more settled life for familiy.

Pros

Excellent Training Programme
Technically Challenging Duties which helps to quickly build competence
Multicultural Work Environment
Diversity is by Default
Fairness to some extent in the way people get promoted

Cons

Could be overdemanding as Employer
Sometimes some incompetent people get to management positions and they cause employees demotivation.
Processes are sometimes ignored to "save cost"

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure lower level managers adhere to the rules and processes.

Pros

good for CV, learn a lot, good benefits

Cons

demanding, compensation low compared to operators

Pros

Diversity: it provides unlimited chances to work with people from different countries, different cultrure background.

Cons

Not a very good place for software developers to improve the skills and develop the career life.

Pros

Great training, good pay, a lot of travel, never boring.

Cons

No life, very specialised training unless you stick it out and get out of the field.

Advice to Senior Management

The model you have makes a lot of money, it's a shame so many good people are lost along the way. Find the balance.

Pros

“Great to company to start with -- get exposure to technology, operations, business side very quickly. People with ambition move up very quickly if they are willing to move…”

Cons

“work/life balance is not there hectic nature of business (service company!!!) personal considerations are not always met people management could be quite bad, HR…”

Advice to Senior Management

Fix HR!
Work on life/balance!
Pay for employee parking

Pros

Respect to employees, open door policy if issues arrive, nice facilities.

Cons

Sometimes communication doesn't make it down the communication chain.

Advice to Senior Management

Give more praise to workers. The one doesn't know if they are doing a good job or not without feedback.

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.