Only Electronics Engineers, Software Engineers and women are safe in 2016 Schlumberger. Look at all layoffs in your location and you will notice that mechanical engineers and all other profiles have been reduced, but no layoffs for Electronics Engineers, Software Engineers and women.
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evidently there is a common theme of commiting the sin of being older than 50. think karma.
Well I am a software engineer, was recently laid off, I guess my sin I was being over 50. Had plenty of work, and not in the engineering software.
Women are safe because they have a$$ and t1t$ and know how to use 'em.
I am a woman, an electrical & electronics engineer, have worked on rigs and a consistent good performer, but was let go. so, this statement is not true.
You need to be a soft female electronics engineer
I m electronic engineer and lay off ??????
The need to protect the IT Nerds who Lock down your mobile Phones, send Fake Phishing Emails, Scan your usb Sticks,and Limit access to your PCs
ditto - software grade B6 : asked to go.
They value junior people over older/senior ones. Partly simply age preference, partly management being fooled that young developers, being more hooked in to the new fads, are going to build more glitzy snazzy stuff. Older guys just see the software hype cycle revolving every decade or so and want to concentrate on the fundamentals. Not so sexy.
Software (in particular engineering software) is not as important in Schlumberger as hardwasre or project management with a result that much of the software transformation efforts in the last few years have been aping the wrong things - managers in awe of Steve Jobs, Apple, Google, 'Innovation' (jeez.. learn people - you can foster Innovation by having good people get stuck in to the details for quite a while and leave them to it - you can't generate it with mickey mouse competitions ) ..,
SLB should concentrate on control systems, real time programming, algorithms - the core stuff - don't think everything is going to end up as an app or micro-service. Emulate Boeing flight management systems, NASA, manufacturing systems, nuclear power plant management systems - things that are safety/time critical. Design good internal interfaces. Then you can cloak it in some web stuff if you like. Don't do things the other way around.
You ain't seen nothing yet.
wrong, I am software, and grade B6:)
Depends where in IT. Service desk that does very little has lost less than 10% and adds lots of NPT to everyone.
IT and support functions were hit the most in the last 2 years