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      WesternGeco Reviews

      3.4

      62% would recommend to a friend

      (65 total reviews)
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      Paal Kibsgaard

      44% approve of CEO

      22% positive business outlook

      WesternGeco has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 65 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WesternGeco employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, repair and maintenance industry (3.7 stars).

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      65 reviews
      2.0
      3 May 2020

      Good pay, that's about it

      Project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good pay and the people you work with are generally pretty genuine. Good health insurance. Not many other benefits though

      Cons

      Management is horrible and treats you like crap. No career progression. Toxic work culture where complaints get disregarded. The pay is good but when you work out your hourly rate vs the amount of hours you have to work due to them greedily understaffing projects.

      4.0
      21 Nov 2013

      A very non-typical job that challenges you, tests you mentally and physically, but rewards you very well.

      Seismic engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Your coworkers (the vessel crew) are very diverse (20+ nationalities) yet we're a tightly knit crew, training at facilities around the world, operations can take you anywhere, zero expenses (no rent, food, gas, etc...), competitive pay, fixed step promotion program allows you to advance as quickly (or slowly) as you wish, serious focus on training, plenty of free time for traveling (~3-6 months vacation/year)

      Cons

      Working 5 weeks straight at 12 hours per day/7 days per week can take its toll on you, spend up to half of your off time in training courses or office assignments, away from family and friends for long periods of time, amount of training can seem overwhelming at times.

      1.0
      22 Feb 2016

      Incredibly boring and unorganised

      Acquisition engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      You can gym every day and there's free food. Sone nice people but after 50 days even these get on your nerves. If you like doing nothing and just want to cash a pretty large pay check then it will do.

      Cons

      No challenges. Whatsoever. You will get horrendously bored. You live on a boat for 7 weeks at a time and the holiday that you do get gets eaten into by training and crew changes, so it is more like 2 weeks. Poor communication. Schlumberger are imposing constant changes that hinder you ability to work. They have no understanding of how western work. Oil price is bad, but everyone is scared for their job as nobody is safe. They fire at will for little to no reason. Prospects for future very low. No career progression really, no transferable skills and not told about how bad it was by interviewers, everyone wants to quit but feel trapped by the large salary.

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