Schlumberger Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Schlumberger

Pros – Good money
Good career progression if prepared to move

Cons – Poor work/life balance
Uncertain working patterns - difficult to take holidays

Advice to Senior Management – Spend some money making sure engineers are placed in roles which best suit them. I had experience in mech eng and physics research and ended up standing on an oil rig counting pipe for a completion - not the best use of my talents.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Schlumberger full-time for more than a year

Pros – good training, decent package, location

Cons – you will stuck with one product line, very hectic work schedule, bad managers, not too much growth, layoffs without a particular process

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Schlumberger full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good benefits, lots of travel opportunities, early job responsibility. Fast paced and meet lots of various people, colleagues are young and good fun.

Cons – Poor work life balance, predominantly work. Vacations cancelled, promotions delayed. Quick reaction to cutting costs if necessary and only think short term.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Schlumberger full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Fixed step training program for technical people is excellent, if not slightly 'overdone'. Steep learning curve which can be hard-going at times but worthwhile in the long run.
Opportunities and responsibilities for graduates and 'freshouts' provides a lot of scope for experience and exposure in various parts of industry.
Respected company-looks good on CV.
'Potential' to get global experience, trasnfers to exotic places with competative international packages and moving between segments & functions is possible.

Cons – High management movement & turnover is policy-and not all management are to the same standard. Bit of a lottery which can impact the workforce dramatically.
Although a technical career progression 'roadmap' is in place, in reality once the fixed step training is completed, individuals do not get enough time to focus on personal development. Revenue comes first.
Recent 'crew change' within industry has impacted motivation and retention, being met with lots of words but little action.
Renumeration still lagging behind operators for local staff. 'Paper' reasons to stay are not realised.
A culture of 'I came here for the training'-many don't see a career in the company beyond G11/GFE.

Advice to Senior Management – Make sure your managers are cut out for the job. Not just on paper. Culture, management style, language/communication-PEOPLE SKILLS seemed to fall by the wayside in preference of a manager who had better revenue results.
Value your experienced people. REALLY value them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger as an intern for more than a year

Pros – The working environment is really multicultural, everyone is friendly and helpful.

Cons – - Stonehouse is too small, but Gloucester/Cheltenham are good alternatives

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Travel and job opportunities to people who show initiative and skills.

Cons – Difficult to get on as a mid-career hire.

Advice to Senior Management – Advertise job positions internally so that positions are vetted & filled by the best candidates.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – good benefit
good balance between work and home life
hard work get good reward

Cons – you have to work extra hour to fill objectives
you need to be extra smart to fit in
you have to stay on to of you game or you will be replaced

Advice to Senior Management – keep all employees motivated..

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Diversity, International Career, pleasant work culture

Cons – Big organisation , bureaucratic, can get monotonous

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on employee development and satisfaction.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger full-time for more than a year

Pros – initial training was good
potential to make good money

Cons – working constant rotation of 3 weeks at offshore rig/ 1 week at home/office
Days at office are considered as "off days"
Too much to learn too quickly
thrown in at deep end
Clients at rigsite take out hatred for schlumberger on you.
All other service hands hate you
Redicoulus nanny culture
The hardest part of the job is the self imposed "schlumbeger way of doing it"
Redicoulous amount of paperwork
If your a specialist be ready to do same job as the guy next to you for half the money

Advice to Senior Management – Sort out the rotations!!!! people cant work these rediculous schedules you give them!! this is why everyone leaves and your shorthanded and give the next generation worse schedules so they too will in turn leave!! break the cycle.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Money, travel(at times), and respect in the industry

Cons – Personal professional life balance, working hrs

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company