It's challenging, very time consuming but indeed interesting - Junior Field Engineer SLB Employee Review

4.0
Apr 27, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The world have no barriers, your manager will not be the same for more than 2 years (what can be a pro and a con, but I think generally speaking is a pro), you'll have international experience (you can start in your home country and a few years later be transfered overseas or the other way round), the payslip is greater comparing with other companies.

Cons

It's very time consuming job (specially in the field and/or offshore), so it's really hard to keep a good work/personal life balance; and mainly, even the system inside the enterprise being very good (regarding promotions due by performance, avaliations in a 3 month basis, a lot of training including specialized training centers etc), in the end of the day your destiny is in the hands of your manager (I guess it happens in most enterprises, but specially in SLB, depending the segment, geomarket and area you are working in, that's absolutely 100% power on your manager. This can be really bad when you do not have a good manager, or when your manager tend to protect personal friends). That'sa big thing I see in many segments inside SLB.

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Cons

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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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