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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4.0
Apr 8, 2016

Dow Chemical

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Challenging careers and good salary and benefits

Cons

Very large corporation with a huge emphasis on bottom line. Not a people-centric organization.

4.0
Mar 26, 2016

Reliability Engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work Life Balance, 9/80 work week, decent health benefits and salary

Cons

Career progression is about average

3.0
Feb 8, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay and benefits are good for local market. Flexibility.

Cons

Within the HR function there is very little room for advancement due to current organizational structure. When a growth opportunity does present itself - candidate is chosen based on who they know vs. overall knowledge, skills and abilities. Overall performance management process is dated; force ranking (leaving many good people at the bottom of the bucket - leading to demotivated employees). Poor leadership within the HR function; what we say we value in leaders is not the type of leader we are putting in our own organization. Understaffed and overworked; continue to say we need to restructure processes to make processes more efficient to ease the burden of our employees - but a) it either doesn't happen or b) it happens but we load them up with additional work and never allow a balance! Behind the market in so many technical aspects.

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