A good company...easy to be caught in a corner
Pros
Dow has locations primarily in Louisiana and Texas, but there are a lot of places you can work for Dow. Dow has a lot of variety in the types of positions available. There are some nice opportunities to move up and the plants have a safe culture.
Cons
Businesses that "make more money" than others get a lot of extra perks and also get extra resources from other "seemingly less important" businesses within the company (which are the ones that make less or no money). If you work for the "seemingly less important" businesses, you may find yourself frustrated about a and important instrument that has had a work order in for 6 weeks while your all-star planner and I&E technician have been leveraged out to other "more important" plants. Business is business, but the company does even try to hide this divide. Also, since the Olin split and the DowDuPont merger, the company culture has grown more focused about cutting all costs, which makes sense. However, when I watched the merger video with all of the big wigs about a month after Hurricane Harvey, they mentioned what we went through for about 30 seconds, then got right into the merger stuff. They dropped it like a rock with blatant disregard. It was bad enough they waited until the last minute to call hurricane duty because of....MONEY. Unfortunately, that event has left me questioning the company's dedication to safety, in spite of how safe we actually are and do practice in the plant. Like I said earlier, business is business, but I feel like a number here.