I don't like what the current management has turned this company into. In my opinion, Schlumberger could have been a much better place, if only there were some other people in the top positions who would know how to use both the potential of the company and the potential of the best employees (who are now in some other companies).
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Too many senior management stuck in the same post for years. An example being Director HSE practices who has been over a decade in the same job, but who swaggers around the globe telling GMs that posts need ‘freshening up’ because incumbents have been there over 2 years.
These senior guys have reached their ceiling and have nowhere else to go within the company.
Do they care?? Been like that for 15 years.
They find rod and squeze
SLB is not here to succeed. They are here to Indoctrinate you into socialist business environment. Just look around at upper management agenda.
The ridiculous bonus system is the root cause of failure and lack of innovation.
Recently left SLB after 10 years of service. Choosing to join SLB was the second worse career decision I’ve ever made. The first was hoping for 10 years that something was going to change. I left on good terms because I try to never burn bridges so I don’t have an axe to grind but I would NEVER advise anyone to accept a position with this company.
agreed on previous post.
company is full of absolute cowards who parrot some form of "but guys, we really have to do x-x because my N+2 said this".
it's really pathetic the lack of originality they have to speak their own voice, lack of confidence in their own ideas, the lack of integrity in them defending those ideas.
this is how we end up with making oilfield products and services steered by some wa---r who hasn't seen a rig, an oilfield, or a reservoir model in years... if ever.
« fire all existing management ».
The directives come from the upper management but the middle management deserves to be blamed just as much because they don’t do anything to protect the employees and don’t challenge the upper management in any decision. I don’t know how they can still look at themselves in the mirror every morning.
establish a culture of honesty, transparency, accountability, simplicity, none of which the current crop of managers have.
align teams and people around doing-good-things, because doing good things tends to result in good people and good products that customers want to work with and buy from.
if you align teams and people around some next-quarter cost-cutting metric you're forcing people to overwork to push out sh-t products that nobody wants.
fire all existing management.