focus is on bottom line - Anonymous employee SLB Employee Review

3.0
Apr 25, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

diversity of staff, opportunity to travel, good benefits, lets you do your job, good training program (but not good for mid-career hires), smart people for most part

Cons

poor personnel and hr functions, some times too bureaucratic, layoffs, some people need to go but are protected, just make money for the company, mid level mgmt poor, peter principle for promotions

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Cons

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Pros

relatively good job security for now

Cons

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