CGG Reviews

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Too many turnovers in my department.

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Long hours and work a lot hours after work without pay. Hidden culture of exploitation.

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The oil industry is in the doldrums, however, many of CGGs problems are of their own making. Management is detached from reality.

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Talking about Houston site, processing department. One of the worst management in a company with such a scale. Better benefits but worse compensation since almost every processor works long time. Many of them work 60 hours a week without compensation (aka project based). About 70% internationals, bad communication and worst time and project management. Almost every project runs into time crisis. Sometimes waiting for results/writing reports even during client meeting/reporting. In such a geophysics company, management prefer any applicants except those with geophysics background and make them work extremely hard. You know what I mean. No formal documentation, leave alone software development guidelines and coding styles. Most code was written by unprofessionals without any comments. Almost everything formatted in PPT. What a joke!

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The corporate level managers do not have the management skill set to run a lemonade stand. The French are arrogant, rude and completely incompetent.

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stress, working need to be hard

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heavy work load; tight deadline

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The processing department is almost 95% asian with no americans in leaderships roles. Most staff often dont speak english which is allowed and they can be very rude and un professional to non asians. If you are chinese or Indian this will be a great place for you. If you are American you will be ignored, not spoken to, and passed over for advancement. Stay away...

No work life balance. Be prepared to give up all person time including weekends and holidays.

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bad management
poor work/life balance

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Many if are non Asian