Fun for a while - Anonymous employee SLB Employee Review

3.0
23 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Its a fun company to work with for a few years. Great talented people, (especially on the ground floor) and the chance to see the world.

Cons

Run by 'controllers' (what used to be called accountants). This results in a total lack of trust when it comes to money, especially in the downturn when they have senior managers as final approvers on the smallest of PO's! The Career advancement system is somewhat unique. The best way to describe it is like 'the hand of God', In short no one knows where there next move is coming from, and you cannot apply for jobs directly, (in most cases you don't even know the jobs are available). So in theory HR (personnel) pick the perfect person for each vacancy after weighing up all the possible candidates in their database, in practice it is of course all down to who you know.

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Pros

benefits, vacation, 401k, I love working for SLB

Cons

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1.0
17 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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