Great company, but problems with middle management. - Senior Design Engineer SLB Employee Review

3.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The Job Opportunities and Challenges presented are tremendous. They have a good benefits package for their employees too, which is incentive enough to work for the organization.

Cons

In one word .. Middle Management. The mid management team comprises mostly of people who have considerable engineering experience with the company. On the other hand, they lack the basic management and team building skills that are essential for the organization to grow. Schlumberger's training program, although robust, fails to account for training these "engineers" as managers.

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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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5.0
Jun 12, 2026
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Pros

Excellent technical and operational training, especially for engineers and field personnel.

Cons

During drilling, completion, or intervention jobs, shifts can extend well beyond scheduled hours.

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