Field Engineer - Anonymous employee SLB Employee Review

3.0
Apr 28, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to make friends and travel. Schlumberger is an international company that makes the investment to move their employees to different parts of the world so you get to mingle with people of many different nationalities.

Cons

It is the oilfield. This means the hours are too many and at all times of the day and night. Average work week is 80 hours and expect many calls at 2am to go on 16 hour jobs.

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Cons

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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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