Dow reviews

3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(3,445 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 3,445 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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5.0
Nov 1, 2012

Great company to work for

Recommend
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Pros

A good competitive salary and great benefits

Cons

Not a bad place to work. Not many downsides.

3.0
Oct 26, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Dow has a collaborative, friendly, family-oriented culture. When Dow hires you, they're hiring all of you and expect to keep you for your career. Most things (except the constant restructuring) about the culture reflect this. Career-long development allows you experience multiple types of roles.

Cons

I think they will have a lot of trouble keeping younger talent in HR in the coming years. Early roles are not strategic enough or challenging enough to keep us interested. Eventually, you get to do the fun stuff but you have to do your time first. Compensation for my education and field is below market. This is because Dow's comp philosophy is under market at beginning of employment and eventually evens out... Hence the 'do your time' mentality. Hard work and commitment pays off EVENTUALLY.... The feeling of 'always doing, yet never done' cycles with a feeling of 'give me something meaningful to do please'. All roads lead to Midland. Being anywhere but there impedes your career.

4.0
Oct 17, 2012

Great Company - MTS-Technical SRVC-Metals-Freeport,TX

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent training Professional Relaxed environment Salary reasonable Wonderful Leader

Cons

Obnoxious, opinionated, self-centred, look down at others, and ignorant colleagues. No chance of getting a compliment for good work and effort. Nothing but put downs. You can spend a good week in your office with your door wide open without any person saying hello to you or see if you’re dead or alive. You can be out sick for a week and no one will bother asking. Don’t say good morning because it will not be said back with kindness. It will never be said to you. Like animals in a barn, walk in....walk out. Someone from the southern western Pacific Ocean actually believes that DOW Chemical will collapse if they left and that the best thing that happened to DOW......it shows how IGNORANT people are.

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