Engineering Manager - Engineering Manager SLB Employee Review

4.0
Aug 14, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very interesting technical work, excellent test facilities. Highly educated workforce. Good pay and benefits.

Cons

Many layers of management. In recent years, beaurocracy is heavy reducing job satisfaction and company performance. Upper management have become a bottleneck for low impact decisions. For example, a program manager responsible for all major decisions on a $10 million per year development program can't approve a $500 business trip to a supplier; all business travel must be approved by 4 additional levels of management, taking weeks, while delaying the program.

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1.0
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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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