Schlumberger Reviews

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

Pros – Schlumberger is the best company to work for. When I look back and see myself I realize that Schlumberger has developed a safety attitude in myself and provided the best training and development opportunities. It is very organized and has well defined training steps up to some level.

Cons – As the company is too big and getting bigger day by day, the process within is getting complicated and hence making it too slow for everyone internally. On the top, managers should lead by example. There are procedures for everything but when it comes to business needs, they can be easily by passed.

Advice to Senior Management – Walk the Talk...!!

No, I would not 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 a year

Pros – - Provide good training for field engineer, especially if you are new to oil&gas industry
- Salary is above average, job bonus can count for a lot. You can possibly make 6 figures after only one year.
- Travel opportunities are plenty
- Overall good company for the inexperienced, young and unsettled.

Cons – - You are always on call excerpt on your days off/vacation, but the latter cannot be guaranteed, that means if you got a call at 3 am, You'll have to get up, gather your crews/equipment and drive to location. I have become paranoid of this that if I woke up at 7 am by my alarm, first thing I think of is that if I have missed a call from dispatch.
- Physically challenging as you have to lift weights and stay awake for 20+ hours while processing data. Stress comes all around: management, client, your crew and many others
- Job security is the subject of oil&gas pricing. Don't be surprised if you are let go or are asked to transfer to another part of the world.

Advice to Senior Management – I really don't have much since I do not see them often.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Schlumberger full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Company has excellent training programs and reasonable benefit packages (although sometimes HR does not share all the information voluntarily and it is left to employees to find out and ask for them!)

Cons – Company has become too big and very hierarchical. Too many layers of management. It is easy to get into a management role ( since there are just too many management roles to fill!) but it doesn't mean much since you are not really developing any valuable skills which would help you in the outside market. The skills which are developed are Schlumberger specific or oilfield service company specific at best. If you are involved on the operation side there is no work-life balance and no respect for people's personal time. You carry your laptop everywhere and are expected to be available no matter if it is evening, weekend or on vacation.

Advice to Senior Management – Company claims to have people, technology, profit as core values. What is practiced however is profit, profit, technology (to generate more profit). As large as the company has become the disconnect with people has become more pronounced. Maybe it is time to stop putting all the effort to compete externally and slow down and take a good look internally and see how people can be brought back into the core values' equation.

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

Pros – dynamic, technical challendge, good training

Cons – Too big in some cases the inconsistence of the HR appears across the company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Good experience in terms of project management skills

Cons – Not much improved my technical skills

Advice to Senior Management – Value hands-on for the management team as well

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

Pros – excellent benefits, good pay, positive work environment, also the company is very forward in helping their employees better their life health-wise, mentally, financially, etc.

Cons – its very difficult to move position internally even though this is continuously emphasized by management.

Advice to Senior Management – better training for employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – can make good money once your trained

Cons – takes 6 months to get trained

Advice to Senior Management – give green hats a trainer to helps speed up training

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Great benefits, good travel opportunity and ability for promotion

Cons – During tough economic times, management put too much pressure on bottom line. Best employees left.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't transfer bad manager's to different sectors and locations.

No, I would not 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 – Reasonable salary for a service company, good benefits in line with industry trends, good team of driven people.

Cons – Huge stress due to merging in a number of new entities. Lack of continious focus in support functions, company is purely clent and operations driven

Advice to Senior Management – Develop consistent focus for support functions develpement

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Schlumberger full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Commensurate salary for work required

Cons – Staying well connected is key to staying above the fray.

Advice to Senior Management – Plenty of quality people continue to work for your firm. Find out why they have stayed and use the learnings to retain some of the "high pots" that have been identified.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend