Is SLB a good company to work for?

SLB has an overall rating of 3.9 out of 5, based on over 15,131 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 73% of employees would recommend working at SLB to a friend and 60% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about SLB have been left by employees working as Intern , Program Manager and Data Scientist .

Does SLB pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, SLB employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at SLB. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at SLB?

73% of SLB employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated SLB 3.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.8 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at SLB?

Field Engineer (924) , Intern (334) , Engineer (259) , Mechanical Engineer (223) , Internship (203) , Software Engineer (195) , Field Specialist (169) , Project Manager (169) , Wireline Field Engineer (119) , Senior Field Engineer (113) , Procurement Specialist (97) , Manufacturing Engineer (90) , Manager (73) , Geophysicist (71) , Financial Analyst (69)

What are the pros of working at SLB according to real employee reviews?

"Good benefits and offerings to employees is good due to the size of the company." ((in 837 reviews)); "Training is good and useful" ((in 721 reviews)); "Good pay and mbility is good" ((in 666 reviews)); "Salary is good and livable" ((in 559 reviews)); "People are great and intelligent" ((in 496 reviews))

What are the cons of working at SLB according to real employee reviews?

"no inspiration in the lab setting everything was based on work completed and no work life balance." ((in 854 reviews)); "2) Some times people are abused because of business needs or poor management (managers fault) or oil crisis" ((in 441 reviews)); "long hours and lots of extrernal and internal pressure" ((in 242 reviews)); "Bad managers get away with breaking all the policies and rules and the ethics line is useless." ((in 233 reviews)); "Very tough and no life balance" ((in 137 reviews))

What are employees saying about SLB layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about SLB layoffs and their outlook for job security at SLB in 2026.

What are the top reviewed SLB locations?

Houston , Sugar Land , Midland , Oklahoma City , Denver , Rosharon , Williston , San Antonio , Lafayette , Katy , Cambridge , Shreveport , Bakersfield , Youngsville , Anchorage , Cheyenne , Provo , Prudhoe Bay , Von Ormy , Dallas , Houma , New York , Odessa , New Orleans , Boston , El Reno , Weston , Lawrence , Florence , Bartlesville

SLB reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(11,663 total reviews)

Olivier Le Peuch

84% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.2

Diversity & inclusion

3.9

Culture & values

3.9

Compensation and benefits

3.8

Career opportunities

3.4

Work/Life balance

3.4

Senior management

SLB has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 11,663 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SLB employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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Reviews by job title

12K reviews

3.0

Sep 13, 2012

everything has to fixed as soon as posible

Mechanic

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Improve more kwoledge of work

Cons

Location that im assign is not good

3.0

Sep 12, 2012

Challenging, exhausting, lucrative, and fun. Good for a first job right out of school involving lots of travel.

Field engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Travel money experience lots of responsibility immediately and good CV material lots of fun people to meet and cool/strange places to go

Cons

Ridiculously long working hours unsafe conditions are prevalent in lower-tier countries, despite the company's claims otherwise lack of communication/transparency from management incompetent managers who are only looking for their own advancement at any cost

5.0

Sep 11, 2012

Excellent, a great place to make a career. As a lifestyle I would be less optimistic.

Field engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent Benefits. High profile jobs, tons of responsibility, little office work, working with cool mechanical and hi-tech tools. You are heavily in charge and you have tons of support, therefore you will always know what to do or else you have the confidence and resources to ask if you are in doubt. It is a very solid working place.

Cons

A successful personal life seems unlikely to happen. The company becomes 90% of your LIFE. Planning time off is not reliable. Your boss will need you at any time on any day, often very unexpectedly. You are most of the time moving to one city to another (which can be exciting) but that means you spend lots of time in places where you know no one and you and your colleagues will be in the same situation. You should add this to the fact that you will have little time off. The end result is that you will spend most weekends with the same people you work with.... in my case I had cool colleagues, but it's not always the case.

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everything has to fixed as soon as posible

Challenging, exhausting, lucrative, and fun. Good for a first job right out of school involving lots of travel.

Excellent, a great place to make a career. As a lifestyle I would be less optimistic.

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