Tough lifestyle, fairly rewarding job - Field Engineer SLB Employee Review

3.0
Feb 11, 2012
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Pros

Recent college grads get a lot of varied responsibility early on- carry out high price contracts with clients, manage operators, maintain millions of dollars of equipment.

Cons

The schedule is very isolating, its hard to maintain healthy relationships with anybody outside of work. Many of the managers are incompetent.

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5.0
Apr 28, 2026
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Pros

benefits, vacation, 401k, I love working for SLB

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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