focus is on bottom line - Anonymous employee SLB Employee Review

3.0
Apr 25, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

diversity of staff, opportunity to travel, good benefits, lets you do your job, good training program (but not good for mid-career hires), smart people for most part

Cons

poor personnel and hr functions, some times too bureaucratic, layoffs, some people need to go but are protected, just make money for the company, mid level mgmt poor, peter principle for promotions

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 17, 2026
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Pros

Good people at the local level. The work is engaging and challenging.

Cons

Too many to count. Career advancements are extremely limited. Pay raises are minimal and don't get close to keeping up with inflation even for top performers. At the corporate level they are using acquisitions to hide massive layoffs. They return billions in profit to investors consistently, but there is still a constant threat of layoffs and multiyear freezes on pay raises even with inflation and solid corporate profit.

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