Weatherford reviews

Management heavy, worker few. Working excessive hours leads to no real benefit for the employee. Management brought in schlumberger management rejects whom looked out for one another and seemed to think the employees whom did the actual work were the problem. Rinse and repeat. When hired, I knew more about a field than anyone else within the group and ended up teaching them. I went through 9 supervisors within 3 years and suffered from having to earn the trust/raises again and again. Ultimately I took the supervisor role and saw why the turnover was high. I lasted only 1.5 years which was longer than most in that role, before I had enough. Promises mean little. Little external support. Some sales employees are retained after over a year of 0 sales generated. An HR person told me I was a lesser candidate than my previous supervisor - I taught him the material. HR wore a hostile mask to cover their ineptitude. Organizational shake-up and reshuffling does not address actual issues nor does changing the title of the groups. The culture actually harmed many people's work ethic.

Weatherford is on the verge of bankruptcy. The management is desperate and ill equipped to handle such an environment. The company hires it's managers and executives on the quid pro quo method. When the company started faltering, the best people left. Weatherford then hired some throw away people from Halliburton and Schlumberger, who then in turn hired their substandard buddies for Weatherford openings. The mid-level to executive management positions are almost all inhabited now by people who were let go by the other companies because they have no skill or acumen in these roles. The executive positions are inhabited by very inept people who just hide in their offices and collect paychecks. Some of them are also extremely arrogant and overcompensate their lack of abilities with puffed up egos. Everyday the lower level employees have to walk through the garage and see the Range Rovers and Porsches and Mercedes Benzs etc etc of these bosses who do nothing but screw the company up and lay people off. They have no regard for the workers that drive the company daily. Only themselves and their bonuses. No strategy or decision lasts more than 3-4 months. No leadership. No direction. No hope for promotion or advancement unless your "in the club". The CEO responsible for driving the Co into the ground was fired and given $35 million dollars to leave. Unbelievable.