Cabot reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(290 total reviews)

Sean Keohane

75% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Cabot has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 290 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cabot employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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290 reviews
5.0
Feb 25, 2018

Company was was friendly and family orientated

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Appreciated employees Christmas hamper and good Christmas party

Cons

Wages were not very good. Middle management lacked experience

5.0
Feb 9, 2018
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Pros

I have read some recent reviews on this website that I disagree with strongly. Cabot is a company of very high integrity. We value our customers and ship high quality product, in fact, if we are unsure then we wont send the product. I lead a sales organization and can say for sure that we make sure we have the customers best interests in mind. Great care is taken in ensuring that our customers will be successful. We value customer needs and seek to find ways to continue to add value and differentiate ourselves. Cabot is seeking to grow into new high value spaces, and this is adding opportunities across the organization, in R&D from CASE to energy storage, in sales across the world, in marketing - where we have several open positions for the right talent. Come join an exciting team with a supportive structure and good benefits.

Cons

Obviously, we need to do more to make sure that all of our employees understand the efforts we take to make sure that our customers are served well. I see Cabot as leading in this area, and some of our competitors are doing the bare minimum. We have a great reputation across our customers. We need to make sure that we continue to expose our employees to customers to hear their voices and understand market needs, so that we can be best positioned to innovate.

1.0
Feb 5, 2018

Unhealthy place to build career

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Cabot can allow for a decent work-life balance. The peer-to-peer interaction (in contrast to is senior-level interaction) can be collaborative. And for those living in New England, Cabot provides one of select few career opportunities in materials / chemicals. Special call out for a well-meaning CEO (although his refusal or inability to shake up people or things around him have allowed the ills to prosper).

Cons

I would STRONGLY dissuade my friends and family from working for Cabot based on my 4+ years of experience in the company in various positions and teams. Some of the reasons include (a) the company's low level of integrity in customer dealings (shipping sub-standard material knowingly hoping that the customer does not find out), (b) cold and indifferent treatment from HR for employee concerns or grievances (HR function may as well not exist in this company; when HR does something it usually is to harm the employees rather than to help them... and things have become worse with org changes recently), (c) rock bottom employee morale as became evident in employee engagement surveys conducted by Corporate, (d) ZERO chance of career development, and as if all that was not enough (e) extremely poor business strategy & execution versus competitors. (please note that you can attribute most of the business performance to oil price movements with only detrimental contribution from business management) The company needs some serious surgery -- which I hope it gets -- because I think it can thrive given its legacy and access to talent globally (especially at mid- to senior-management levels in the Boston area).

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