The Good, The Bad and The UGLY - Engineer SLB Employee Review

3.0
11 July 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to meet some smart people. The recruiting department is amazing. They know whom to pick. One will be awestruck with the amount of talent the company has. If you are right out of college, great place to learn a lot. The engineering systems are amazing and the set up is right for engineering success. Great training opportunities.. Good place of you want to learn more

Cons

If you dont know to play the GAME, forget about career growth. Manager is your GOD, if you are not in his good books you cant step out of the department and also your promotions are a road block. They have this stupid program called ADVANCE which will restrict your career growth for the first three years in an event you dont finish it on time. Your manager dont necessarily give you time to prepare for that. Higher management is isolated from what you do on the floor. They only care for numbers .. You are a number unless you are counting numbers .. Benefits were good but now it is not so great. Bad Place for mid careers , no development for you out there.. Very stressful work environment.. A lot of French politics (unreasonable politics).. HR department is the worst department, they dont do sqat other than recruiting and providing you with forms .. Bad place if you want your company to grow with your inputs .. Middle management does not give $HT about u ..

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5.0
6 Apr 2026
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Pros

Flexible role and good benefits

Cons

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1.0
17 June 2026
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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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