SLB reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(11,619 total reviews)
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Olivier Le Peuch

84% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

SLB has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 11,619 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SLB employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
May 7, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Good travel for training and occasional projects (even for those on home country contracts), lots of responsibility, good mix of autonomous and team work. Interesting technology to work with.

Cons

Terrible respect for work life balance, top heavy management structure and dire job security. Frequent top down work directives to be implemented/huge buereacracy, but massive inertia. Witchhunts in place of actual failure investigations and nepotism exists within this company.

1.0
Jun 30, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Work experience (Only on your specialized segment, not others); SLB is good in what they do (in some segments) - Possibilities to travel to oilfield places (mainly remote) - Fair training courses for your special task you do - Salary is just average; Don't expect it to be above average - Good company for fresh graduate who're willing to find a job and with no dependent family

Cons

- Your personal life is gone, no family, no friend, no girl/boy friend; forget it - Salary they pay, doesn't correlate what they ask you to do; You also end up staying longer in your work base every day just to finish your assigned tasks - Whatever happens (failure, malfunction,...) is your FAULT! either you didn't check it or you didn't manage your time to get enough rest to resolve your problem! Blame culture is ridiculous! - Be aware: whatever you demand, they offer you extremely opposite! so always ask for something you don't want to get what you want! - They don't train you in a wide range of business, so you always depend on them; You only will be trained for the tasks you need to do in your own segment, you never get a chance to be trained in other segments so you will be always depending on them and can NOT find a wider range of the jobs after quitting - The attitude and behavior of your managers is absolutely not-acceptable. they don't see you as a human, they see you are an asset which have to make money and otherwise is out! not that the managers are naturally like this, but the SYSTEM demands from them to act this way, even if they don't want to, they become like that. They mainly under pressure and become aggressive most of the times, specially with juniors it's even worse

1.0
May 11, 2016

Toxic working environemnt

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Occasional opportunities to work on the international assignments and experience truly diverse working environment.

Cons

Politics, nepotism, ‘blame’ culture. Conservatism and unwillingness to support progressive ideas form inertia, bureaucracy and a culture of avoiding responsibility.

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