DuPont reviews

You do not learn much technically over the years. Many people advance career by playing politics, such as organizing safety review often, and kissing up managers. There is lack of accountability of failing a project due to poor management and incompetency.

In order to get a promotion in DuPont IT, they want you to be a manager. Yet higher level IT people who have been there a long time can spend hours in their office playing Windows games and have no real responsibilities. DuPont IT hires contractors out the wazoo who waste time, resources, do terrible jobs at support and also waste time and money in paperwork games that bog down any real work to be done. It takes 20x longer to go through the paperwork systems ( some processes owned and maintained by contractors) to move a project from development to production than it takes to actually do the work itself. Something as simple as creating a folder on a drive that used to take 10 seconds is now a 2 month production, with 20 to 50 sign-offs of contract people. Projects are put in place that are just a total waste of money and resources. Many times they are proposed and created by the Dupont 'Center Of Excellence' gurus to replace older systems which are already cost effective and efficient. The lower level IT support people know that these changes are not needed and will be less efficient and will have a higher risk of failure and voice their opinions, Those opinions are always discounted and fall into dead air or are answered with the reply.. 'You don't understand the big picture'. These 'replacement' projects almost always fail, leaving the upper crust IT gurus scratching their heads in amazement, while the lower level IT support people knew this would happen all along. DuPont is still holding onto outdated process management tools like Six Sigma, when it has been clearly shown that 60% of all Six Sigma projects eventually fail. Especially when you try to force them down the throat of every IT person as a 'You have to do this' option. What you get is a six sigma task with no meaning, just to mark it off your list as having done the 'requirement'. One of DuPont 'Core Values' is 'Respect for People', and they hold this out as their flagship core value. It is however, a one way mirror. DuPont believes that they are treating their people fairly, when in all honesty, the promotion system is still the good old boy buddy system. People get promoted by sucking up to the management, not by the work they do. In DuPont, if you sit in your office, do all your required work, increase your skills by 10x what they were after you were hired, please all your customers where they have nothing but great things to say about you, that won't get you promoted. If you want to work for an efficient IT company, who's management has a firm grip on costs, and who's people are acknowledged for the work they do (and not their managers taking all the glory) and their accomplishments and skill level increases are rewarded with level promotions.. you may want to look elsewhere. DuPont IT is not the place for you. If you decide to work for Dupont IT, Come with low expectations and just do your work every day like the cow in the field, munching grass.You will be happier.