DuPont reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(3,200 total reviews)
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Lori Koch

78% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

DuPont has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,200 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The DuPont employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Sep 28, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Good atmosphere, nobody stays in the office after 4.30. Work life balance is great. Exposure to VP and other executives.

Cons

Slow, bureaucratic, lot's micro management. Workforce is old, demotivated and reluctant to change. No opportunities outsides of Wilmington.Lots of politics.

2.0
Mar 4, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

There are a wide variety of businesses to tranfer between when your current position is getting stale or cut. DuPont had a tendency to promote from within, so you could start out as an engineer or chemist and end your career in legal, HR, R&D, management, operations, or sales and marketing. This has only gradually begun to change such that DuPont is starting to hire externally for transferable skills such at IT.

Cons

No matter what division, management is highly politically correct, to the point where quality of management has suffered greatly. Many fine and talented employees are passed over for promotions in order to meet an established quota that management is graded and rewarded for meeting. It sounds good in social theory, but the consequences are simply horrific. Nimrods run organizations where it is intuitively obvious they are way over their heads. It's only the talent beneath them that keeps the ship afloat and lurching forward.

4.0
Apr 12, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

You'll feel extremely well taken care of from the get-go. The teams are fantastic. Everyone is extremely competent and the science is interesting.

Cons

Their yearly pay raise has failed to match or beat inflation for multiple years. Effectively, many have received a pay cut within the company despite record profits. Their reasoning is that their policy is to have "merit-based" raises which is a very corporate and detached method given the current (and now long-spanning) economic climate. They are great to work for, but will likely experience turnover for the above reason as time goes on unless they implement new compensation policies.

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