I have done it today. It has 105 cm and I have used 45 sheets of paper to make it. I can also try to do it of 148 cm ( and also be successful) if this is not enough but as far as I have understood from here it must have 100-150 cm. But right now my question is if they still have this test after all these years of having it. I can also attach some pictures of the rig I have done but... I don't want to take someone's satisfaction of building it by himself after thinking of how to do it.

please teach, it really sounds interesting!

Sorry, I can't do that. Try to figure it yourself. Can anyone tell me if the rig is ok if it has the height of 105 cm ?

oh yeah the rig needs to be 1m from the ground, total height at least 150cm I think?

can at least support 8 golf balls as well

Hello, I was just surfing lowyat and i found this interesting conversation. From what I understood I must build a rig out of 50 sheets of paper. But what I didn't get is the height....1m from the ground 150 cm total height? Please explain....Did you mean 1m at least 1.5m max?..or what..I want to build it for fun to see if I can do it.

You can build anything good but no good if you cannot explain how you've done it. Let me ask you something..
The purpose..can anybody tell me the purpose of this rig building? Yes its look nice, held the golf balls, stood more than a meter from ground..but why? Why they want us to build something like this?

if you can answer this and stood out, i'm pretty sure you'll get through even though you rig is a disaster.

zbang, try to build yourself with the paper.
Try to think of tripod style of a rig instead of 4 legged.

azhanblur, minimize the facilities cost to build a rig without neglecting the safety and purpose of the rig?

Not quite..slb is not a rig builder afterall

Here some insight;

1. Teamwork
2. Leadership
3. Planning
4. Execution
5. Presentation

Summary;

Its about planning for a project as a team then make decision. Cost, materials, time etc are all considered. Once decision is made, you have to make sure it'll work and not changed in the middle of the execution. See, in real world, once contract is agreed upon by client you can't just change/made amendment as you like. Do that, company will bare the loses.

yeah as I was saying earlier. it doesn't matter if you build the rig successfully, questions are easier to handle that's for sure.

but they want to see how you interacted during the process with your team and how you answer their questions.

i failed to build the rigs but I managed to get through until the third interview.

February may be my last month in schlumberger, as they are letting go many people this year and I'm certain that I'm next in line. It's gonna hurt like hell, after all those interviews, travelling...exit gonna seem to be easier but not that easy.. Life goes on..no matter how hurt it is..

So with that note, I'll still answer any questions regarding job/life here, I'll do my best to help but not as fast as usual tho..will be busy packing stuff

Good Luck for SLB wannabes...

they come to my uni and just able to enter the 3rd interview(last Interview) than they said sorry u'r fire...

I am sorry to hear that you will be leaving Slb azhanblur . What I don't understand is why they keep recruiting new people since they are making lists with people that will go from them.

Let go of people with high salary, then take in people and offer lower salary..genius.. Anyway, not leaving yet..I'm safe..for now..

This post has been edited by azhanblur: Jan 30 2009, 06:04 PM

Of course.What can Malaysians contribute for the MNCs that they don't have in their own country.
If you're into their R&D with their core secrets then they will maybe think twice.

But in Malaysia MNCs are just here to take advantage of cheap labour.

True,but they already make you sign a confidential contract..meaning if you ever expose their business secrets, you gonna get sue man... so they may never give a thought on that side at all.

Not just MNCs, all business are like that, imho..even kedai mamak are using cheap labor from india. We just have to learn how to survive if we want to continue working for others.

One way to stay way from this scenario..be a share holder...every time a company make some restructuring (or retrenching), most of the time their share price will go up..whose gonna profited from others suffering? Share holders...

Bro, read this.
Don't you think this is so true?
I feel if SLB is doing this, their current management is not bright.

Well, the truth is there's a discord between OFS (Oilfield Services), guys who make decisions based on the big picture & the respective departments (D&M, wireline, completions, artificial lift, dowell, etc).

Basically OFS are the ones who recruit ppl and will pay their salaries until they prove to be competent to do the job (i.e. break out), so for the respective departments, they are considered free labour. That's why the respective departments are so quick to fire those with not so good performance (maybe now also targetting those who just meet expectations), and yet OFS are still recruiting.

As for the paper tower thing, as long as you remember that triangles are the best form of support, 50 sheets is plenty of paper. I think my group's tower was more than 2m, but not everyone in my group was hired. And they just want to make sure you are the type who can work with others you barely know and can string a word or two explaining your design in understandable English.

Anyway, in the end you have to remember they are looking for management trainees - so you're expected to make presentations, bring out the best in your team, etc.

This post has been edited by azhanblur: Jan 31 2009, 12:48 AM

I've been there... now I am waiting for an email to come with an answer from them.

so am I. went through the final round interview a week ago.. and now waiting for the phone call. please have good news!