A true international company - Anonymous employee SLB Employee Review

4.0
Jan 7, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Cultural diversity of the organization is unparalleled. Exciting, dynamic, never boring, opportunity for continuous challenge based on your performance. Opportunity to experience working in a global environment and work with technology. Incredibly interesting, smart people to work with. The people who work for Schlumberger make it a great place to work. As someone else said - it's a career not a job.

Cons

Like any large company, the politics can be challenging at times. It's a hard driving performance oriented company and as a result, work/life balance and focus on employees suffer as a result. It's a career not a job and the environment either fits you or it doesn't - there is no in between.

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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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