Dow reviews

3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(3,435 total reviews)
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Jim Fitterling

63% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Dow has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,435 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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3K reviews
4.0
Jan 12, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Dow is a large company, and offers the opportunity of moving between roles and gaining a breadth of experience. They are major part of a keystone industry.

Cons

It is a very large corporation, and it is hard not to feel like a cog in a giant machine. Management and coaching is not encouraged or rewarded, so little opportunity for mentorship and guidance beyond your own wherewithal. Dow is a bit of an old boy's club, and promotions are influenced by who you know and have worked for and how much political capital they have with leadership. The industry is old fashioned and lacks an innovative and face paced environment, and this is true through much of the company. Dow wants to be an innovative technology leader, but is caught in its hedge between old school commodities for which cost cutting and efficiency are the keys, which are its bread and butter, and advanced technologies further up the value chain. Dow isn't risk tolerant to place the financial bets and invest in a different type of human resource to really transform as a company.

3.0
Jul 30, 2014

Dow management wants work done the Dow way.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They demand a safe environment for working in the lab and they pay well.

Cons

Everything has to be done the Dow way. Don't go there if you are an out-of-the-box thinker. That is not the Dow way. They believe that there must be a 10% turnover in personnel and they will have layoffs to meet their beliefs. They prefer yes men to people that get the job done.

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