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      SLB

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      3.9

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (11,639 total reviews)
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      Olivier Le Peuch

      85% approve of CEO

      61% positive business outlook

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      SLB has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 11,639 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 Énergie et exploitation des ressources naturelles industry (3.7 stars).

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      12K reviews
      1.0
      Mar 12, 2016

      Make this company last resort if you are an Engineer!

      Field engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good training and an excellent stepping stone company.

      Cons

      Would not advise anyone of this company especially Engineers to look at this company as a long term employer! This company went from "Pro Engineers" to the graveyard of smart and talented Engineers. they will put you in the nasty dangerous oilfield and expect you to do manual labor in order to succeed, and you have to report to people in some cases with high school diploma who's been in the oilfield for long time and they can't stand engineer who one day could end up being their boss. So many Engineers have lost their life working for Schlumberger while driving since you will be doing a considerable amount of driving to and from drilling rig locations while tiered and they put the responsibility totally on you which having themselves protected by labor laws. they expect you to stay up for more than 24 houres in some cases and punish you if you make a small mistake.

      4.0
      Mar 11, 2016

      Field Engineer

      Senior field engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      International experience, responsibility at a very early stage, career and growth opportunities, great compensation, network and support structure, brand value

      Cons

      work life balance, living in remote and small places, high pressure work environment, unhealthy life style because of changing sleeping hours

      4.0
      Feb 23, 2016

      10 years with Schlumberger

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I started in the US, then had a chance to work overseas. It was a great way to live in a half-dozen places around the US/world and work with all sorts of people also from around the world. The work was challenging and the job role was always changing with every transfer because even when my title stayed the same, the challenges had to be solved with a now different set of resources in each new location. Compensation while I was in the US was OK at best. While working overseas, I thought it was very generous, but that's from my perspective as someone without a family. To work in some places without one's family would not be for most people.

      Cons

      This is the oilfield and this is a service company. If you work in a field location, you are always on call. Maybe not explicitly so, but there is always the lurking chance that something will happen like a last-minute client request and then everyone scrambles to please the client. In the end, the lifestyle was my biggest reason for leaving. It was a fun way to spend my 20s gallivanting around the world, but it became far less enjoyable in my 30s.

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