Halliburton reviews

The first year was terrible as they would "haze" the new engineers to toughen them up. They would send me to the worst jobs at all hours of the night and then expect me to be in the office the next morning at 8 am. I was salary without bonuses for that first year. I calculated my hourly rate with all of the extra hours I worked to be around $4/hr. I never complained because I was young and fresh out of college and thought that was how the world worked. Come to find out after I left the company, that even though I was salary, I still should have been paid overtime. What they were doing was illegal. As a woman, they never gave me opportunities to move up and improve. They said the only way to get a promotion was to move into a new department and start over with my training which would take at least a year. So that's what I did. I moved and right when I was about to finish my year of training, the market dropped and they let me go so they wouldn't have to pay my new increased salary. Another con is that I was harassed during my last year while I was in training in the new department (production enhancement). I reported it to HR, they swept it under the rug and I was let go without severance less than 2 months later. After working at this company with zero problems for 5 years, no write ups, exemplary reviews by my superiors, and always on call, they let me go without warning and no safety net at the end of the month. Of course I fought for my unemployment which they tried to deny, but since they had no case, the judge awarded me full benefits. I wish I had sued. Also the work/life balance is terrible Old Boy's club Only 1 woman executive when I was working and it was for HR and she was best friends with the CEO's wife. All other leadership positions were male with 1 exception. As an international company comprising of 80,000 employees, it was pretty telling.