Baker Hughes Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Maintains a very manageable workforce, not too much so that the company does not need to reduce manpower at trouble times. Work place generally has a small group which works more like a family. Have strong ethical business principles and completely complaint.

Cons – Local management is not strong in many cases. Weak personnel team. Career guidelines not very well defined for all roles in local offices. Management most of the times focuses only on operations not on the data evaluation and interpretation market.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to hire proper personnel (HR) managers, with proper knowledge of Oil and Gas business. Management should define and respect the career guidelines of all technical personnels.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Baker Hughes full-time for more than a year

Pros – Professional development, High tech products, Client focus, Best in class services, Good industry reputation

Cons – Inconsistent management, Poor performance review process, Lot of changes to the trainee program.

Advice to Senior Management – Attract better talent.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great work culture, Good Teamwork and flexibily for working style.The Managers are understanding and allow subordinates to work freely with minimum supervision.This allows employees to have a good work-home balance.

Cons – Slow and undefined career path.Although the company is a great place to work, it can get a bit slow and stagnant sometimes.It gets undefined after a certain point of time and people look for more challenging oppotunities.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good place to work with a lot of bright people. Company encourages learning and growth throughout ones career. Lots of opportunities to broaden experience. Company has good pay and benefits.

Cons – Due to nature of the business, working here can lead to a feeling of being overworked and possible burn out.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes full-time for less than a year

Pros – very good training for graduates...

Cons – work life balance and stress

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes full-time for less than a year

Pros – High Salary, Professional Working Environment, competent training, great technology, chance to travel,

Cons – hash condition, able to call, time schedule

Advice to Senior Management – Its unfair when we have the recent graduate and the experience one interview together.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes as an intern

Pros – Good salary,great conditions.Fabulous and priceless expirience.

Cons – Everything was great,I don't think I can remember any downsides.Anyway it was only short internship.

Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – great learning ground
can gain international experience

Cons – Lack of career growth
Lots of conflict at the management level

Advice to Senior Management – Embrace teamwork

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Baker Hughes

Pros – Good pay with lots of OT if would like to work! Benefits are good.

Cons – Need to care more about the employees!

Advice to Senior Management – Need improvement on communication.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Baker Hughes full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – In all fairness, normally pay is high and compensates demand and complexity of the organisation. Good career opportunities (especially abroad and/or Field). Clear policies. Very good internal systems and IT applications. Very global and multicultural.

Cons – Complex organisation. Impersonal. Appalling decision making (process takes so long the decision becomes obsolete and you have to start all over again, which is so frustrating). No recognition - it is not only about pay (which is okay but it is not always the case). Getting 0 merit increases globally has happened. Many employees are required to travel and that could harm their personal life - management do not care. Being in a very global and multicultural organisation also means you get phone calls during your weekends from Arabic countries or have to resolve issues urgently, or have conference calls late in the evening (depending on the time zones). So, in a nutshell, some (or maybe... many) positions do not have your classic 9 to 5 schedule, but that is not even deemed important.

Advice to Senior Management – Some decisions must be made quickly. Recognise the involvement and dedication.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company