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Martin Craighead
Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes full-time for more than 10 years
Pros – Good place to work with a lot of bright people. Company encourages learning and growth throughout ones career. Lots of opportunities to broaden experience. Company has good pay and benefits.
Cons – Due to nature of the business, working here can lead to a feeling of being overworked and possible burn out.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-15 16:12 PDT
1 person found this helpful
Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes
Pros – Technology is some of the best.
First class training.
Cons – Pay
Conditions
Upper managment
Limited growth
Advice to Senior Management – Baker you need to relook at how you sit in Australia..
There is no point having such a high turn over of workers.. Keep them happy and let them stay.
Field Engineers shouldn't belong in an office.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
2011-10-27 05:56 PDT
1 person found this helpful
Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes
Pros – Proven technology.
Good resources if you can find them
Winning a lot of work in Australia
Cons – Poor salary compared with competitors.
HR is incompetent.
Under resourced.
Work life balance is bad.
Knee jerk management. to many chiefs. not enough Indians.
Advice to Senior Management – Discuss changes/plans with employees. Forward plan for resources to be available before a project commences. support/reward the staff you have.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
2011-09-16 20:22 PDT
1 person found this helpful
Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes
Pros – international mobility is certainly a positive for Baker Hughes. Can learn across many diverse product lines and cultures within the company.
Cons – gender diversity is something which is not been developed when compared with Baker Hughes direct competitors. Also dual career opportunities
Advice to Senior Management – gender parity is needed on opportunities and compensation. Visibility of successful females within the organisation to demonstrate success can actually happen
2010-08-23 00:26 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes full-time for less than a year
Pros – very good training for graduates...
Cons – work life balance and stress
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-08 06:21 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes full-time for less than a year
Pros – High Salary, Professional Working Environment, competent training, great technology, chance to travel,
Cons – hash condition, able to call, time schedule
Advice to Senior Management – Its unfair when we have the recent graduate and the experience one interview together.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-09 17:09 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes as an intern
Pros – Good salary,great conditions.Fabulous and priceless expirience.
Cons – Everything was great,I don't think I can remember any downsides.Anyway it was only short internship.
2013-04-23 00:28 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes full-time for more than 7 years
Pros – great learning ground
can gain international experience
Cons – Lack of career growth
Lots of conflict at the management level
Advice to Senior Management – Embrace teamwork
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-20 10:59 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes full-time for more than 10 years
Pros – Seems there are opportunities if you are aggressive and make right connections.
Cons – International folks coming to US but not many from US going overseas.
Advice to Senior Management – Level the playing field for US employees instead of giving most opportunities to UK employees.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-04-30 17:11 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes
Pros – Good pay with lots of OT if would like to work! Benefits are good.
Cons – Need to care more about the employees!
Advice to Senior Management – Need improvement on communication.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-02 00:11 PDT
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