Stay away if mid career - Anonymous employee SLB Employee Review

2.0
Mar 27, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the people you work with are good and professional, and some of the senior management. Good benefits for international mobiles

Cons

Where do I start? I'm my opinion SLB are the epitome of the money grabbing corporation who put their shareholders in front of anything else including employees. I have no faith in the direction the company is going and am surprised that they have lasted and prospered for so long. If you are a mid career looking to join SLB then stay away. They will not use your experience and expect you to conform to what they want. What happened in your career before you get they're will not matter once you get in. Another problem is the constant changing of managers. You may have a manager who is supportive one minute and the next he or she is transferred and you could be left with someone who doesn't like you and your career in SLB stalls. Of course it could happen the other way but do you want to play Russian Roulette with your career? The company now is not the company I joined a few years ago and that is a shame. The atmosphere is now toxic and the recent global redundancies have not helped especially as the industry downturn hasn't hit those running the company. SLB was and could be a good company to work for but you will find more people leaving currently than joining and that tells its own story.

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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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