Meh - Anonymous employee SLB Employee Review

2.0
30 Aug 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good way to get some basic industry experience to put on a resume. Training programs are well done and thorough.

Cons

The promotional process is ridiculously complicated and requires huge amounts of jumping through hoops on your own time outside of work. Also, jumping through those hoops in a timely manner is required if you don't want to get canned. Apt to make you just stop caring. Insensitive mid level management, and oblivious upper level management. Additionally, none of the management, including low level managers, actually had to jump through the hoops they now force on new hires. Also currently an oppressive place to work due to relentless layoffs month after month.

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5.0
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Pros

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

Cons

I wish they had a better way of promoting.

1.0
17 Jun 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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