Schlumberger Reviews

Pros – The campus is massive, they have their own street names, soccer field, great environment.
Good learning experience.

Cons – lots and lots of unnecessary trainings and classes that are basically a waste of time.

Advice to Senior Management – try to look closer to employees

Pros – 1. good work environment with smart people
2. good salary and benefits
3. chance to work anywhere in the world since this is a global company

Cons – 1. some travel is definitely involved - can be 25% or higher
2. oil and gas is a cyclical industry so when things turn bad, they are really bad

Advice to Senior Management – nothing specific, I think the management is competent and is doing the best it can in the current hard economic circumstances

Pros – Tech, knowledge sharing, hands on and great responsability real soon

Cons – paper work, few time off, no balance between work and personal life

Advice to Senior Management – The problem is not today, it is 4 years from now. Good Mgrs are leaving because of how they are treated by HR, which for me is the weakest point in SLB structure. As they leave, less experienced mgrs get the position. This new generation grew up with the idea of every man for itself, up to the point of getting in the way and delaying decisions / work / etc if they are not in their objectives. As a consecuence, everybody works to complete their objectives and nothing else. Mood and environment generated from this and the way Hr does nothing but to convince people they are going to be better treated in another company ( a common answer by HR is if you do not like it is the door is open; instead of applying the techniques SLB promotes in their many personnel courses)... is a time bomb. Meanwhile, revenue keeps growing. Is this the right way to make stockholders happy?

Pros – Great pay, great training program, a lot of opportunity for growth. You will meet people from all over the world and have the opportunity to travel all over the world

Cons – They will work you until you drop. Expect to sleep in the back of pickups at dig sites you will likely be living at for days at a time.

Advice to Senior Management – Watch out for the little guy. My location of ~20 engineers and operators experienced over 30 resignations in the year before and during my arrival, mostly due to an overzealous FM and little to no recourse for the operators and engineers

Pros – High paying, long days off, generous benefits, diverse workforce, great training program, opportunity to grow and move to different positions, international locations

Cons – Long hours, long workweek, often understaffed, no overseas training due to down market, tough work/life balance, a lot of time away from home

Advice to Senior Management – Make sure to remember people before profit.

Pros – good pay, fun work and good perks.

Cons – managers are rude. have no manners and unhelpful

Advice to Senior Management – need more effort on retaining people. it seems that talent gets overlooked.

Pros – benefits package, travel, training, stock options

Cons – no overtimes, overworking the employees with no consideration for work life balance

Advice to Senior Management – assign mentor, encourage each employee according to their personalities so they can perform at their best

Pros – You get requested days off; benefits; stock options; sometimes freedom to work at own pace without anyone breathing down your neck.

Cons – Pay is below other companies; management has too many newbies that are messing up the company; no loyalty; too many new engineers in charge of large projects and they do not know what they are doing. Burning bridges with vendors.

Advice to Senior Management – stop getting rid of all the knowledgeable employees that know tools. The new people may get paid less but will take them 4x longer to solve a problem. That is not a cost savings. Get the loyalty back like it used to be. We devote our lives to you but you turn around and throw us to the dogs.

Pros – It was a good place to work. Pay wasn't as good as the industry. Great benefits though and good environment.

Cons – Management didn't listen to needs of employees. Most of the time, never pulled through on what they said they would do (transfers, promotions, bonuses)

Advice to Senior Management – None at this time.

Pros – Schlumberger offers it's employees excellent benefits and a rather relaxed enviroment in which to work. The pay is decent although less than a lot of the other gas/oil companies.

Cons – Schlumberger is a very large company and thus there is a lot of beaurocracy which makes a lot of unnecessary work. Lots of hoops to jump through that you would not necessarily have with a smaller company. The pay is not as competitive as other companies out there. Bonuses are only up to 20% and no raises at all this year.

Advice to Senior Management – My advice to Schlumberger would be to not make things so difficult. There is a lot of time wasted doing meaningless things that could be put to more billable use. Also, pay people the same as the rest of the industry.