Dow reviews

3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(3,447 total reviews)
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Jim Fitterling

64% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Dow has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,447 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Dow employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Jan 7, 2014
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Pros

Empowerment, generally speaking your are your own boss. No foreman or shift foreman over your back 24/7 telling you what to do or how to take a dump. You do have a supervisor which is your operations leader, and technical adviser. I like the feel of this setup, much better then most other places I been.

Cons

Engineers do not always make good boss or leaders. A very smart tech savoy person might not be a good leader. I fail to see how they never hire operation leaders from other sources. The requirement seems to be based on the good old boys club of engineering. Another unpleasant fact I deal with is blocking the internet of union operators or leaving that decision for operational leaders. While non-union operators have full access, imagine being sent link after link even form the CEO or other leader saying go hear check this video out or vote on the USA team uniform. Guess what even important training links are block my job requires internet access but because of poor judgement and backwater thinking they block it specifically to union operators.

4.0
Jan 3, 2014

Working for Dow

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are a lot of good people working for Dow, but you find those everywhere. If you are liked by management and have a degree, you will do well.

Cons

If you are liked by management and do not have a degree, you will not get very far. There are limited opportunities for those that have no degree, regardless of ability.

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