Is Dow a good company to work for?

Dow has an overall rating of 3.9 out of 5, based on over 5,170 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months. 72% of employees would recommend working at Dow to a friend and 41% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Dow have been left by employees working as Internship , Co-Op and Chemical Operator .

Does Dow pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Dow employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Dow. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Dow?

72% of Dow employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Dow 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Dow?

Engineer (69) , Process Operator (66) , Estagiário (65) , Customer Service Representative (63) , Intern (61) , Account Manager (60) , Production Engineer (59) , Process Engineer (39) , Research Scientist (38) , Maintenance Engineer (36) , Operator (34) , Improvement Engineer (33) , Internship (30) , Customer Service Representative (CSR) (28) , Mechanical Engineer (28)

What are the pros of working at Dow according to real employee reviews?

"I thought benefits are good but now that I'm in a new companay I realized that Dow is nowhere close to other Oil/Chemical companies." ((in 355 reviews)); "good pay and very safe" ((in 275 reviews)); "Flexibility and great people to work with" ((in 247 reviews)); "good and work life balance" ((in 226 reviews)); "Dow’s culture is to push employees to learn more and do more HR has a good culture" ((in 172 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Dow according to real employee reviews?

"Management in this area is poor and biased on personal opinion and not merit." ((in 110 reviews)); "Wish they have better control on bad leadership." ((in 50 reviews)); "Some very bad managers are in positions of power." ((in 39 reviews)); "Long hours and some bureaucracy" ((in 29 reviews)); "Full of favoritism, credit given to useless employees and no one there cares about each other or the facility." ((in 22 reviews))

What are employees saying about Dow layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Dow layoffs and their outlook for job security at Dow in 2026.

What Dow locations have received the highest employee ratings?

New York , Baton Rouge , Lake Jackson , Auburn , Collegeville , Champaign , Beaumont , Minneapolis , Pittsburg , New Orleans

Dow reviews

3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(3,434 total reviews)

Jim Fitterling

65% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

3.9

Culture & values

3.9

Compensation and benefits

3.8

Work/Life balance

3.6

Career opportunities

3.3

Senior management

Dow has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,434 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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Reviews by job title

3K reviews

1.0

Jul 16, 2015

Great company, horrible locations

Associate research scientist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great company, one of the best at what they do. Encourage you to network within the company and provide you with a mentor. You can climb the ladder if you impress the right people- don't think it's based on skill. Will set you up for a great career when you leave, which you will.

Cons

Horrible locations. HQ is in Midland, MI- middle of nowhere religious small town. Absolutely nothing to offer. Expect to die alone if you're single, and if you're not, your spouse won't be able to find a job and will leave anyways. Think hard about what the price of your career is.

2.0

Aug 18, 2018

Bureaucratic with power broker leadership

Product development manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay, flexible schedules, good first line managers, good executive leadership.

Cons

Middle management is stacked with sociopath narcissists.

3.0

Mar 30, 2017

Great place to learn. But..."our way is always the right way, and besides, that's how we've always done it."

Director

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great place too learn. Very collegial most of the time. Many opportunities to fix big (albeit unnecessary) missteps--basically a version of the "fail fast fail often" mantra, but completely unintentional. Pretty good comp. Very complex business. Don't underestimate the educational value of joining an old line industrial company. Operations, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Environmental and more are all both broad and complex--far more so than most "new" business. Just don't expect great marketing experience: the company mostly sells commodity plastics and chemicals, which is why all the other aspects of the business tend to be used as sources of competitive advantage.

Cons

Despite being amicable, the culture is very rigid and not dynamic at all, especially when it comes to problem solving and strategic positioning. That can be very frustrating since the breadth and depth of the work is so extensive. There are so many missed and mismanaged opportunities! Majority of executive management is grossly incompetent and owes their position to unquestioning, mindless loyalty to the CEO/Chairman of the Board. CEO is a self absorbed, dishonest megalomaniac who generally ignores his competent leaders out of pride and overconfidence. Read about his $720k expense account abuse--it's public. Ironically it became public the same week he rolled out a new employee ethics and integrity standard where he lectured the company about, among other things, how use of expense accounts to even the smallest degree is grounds for termination. Also of note, three corporate auditors in a row were fired or quietly force out of the company remarkably soon after each confronted him about his expense account abuse.

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