Eastman reviews

3.3

55% would recommend to a friend

(2,478 total reviews)
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Mark J. Costa

42% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Eastman has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,478 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Eastman 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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2K reviews
1.0
Apr 9, 2019

Horrible place now

Recommend
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Pros

People close to Retieing looking forward to good benefits have been duped. No life or health insurance is offered now. 30 years and 1250.00 retirement and whatever I have put in my unmatched 401k. Older employees are being forced to work to 65 and Eastman does not care.

Cons

No union in the plant to represent workers against the corporate greed that is running rampant now.

3.0
May 13, 2017

Engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I respect and enjoy my coworkers and the technical work i am asked to perform. I do not have to travel an excessive amount

Cons

Ranking system for employees is demotivating and hurtful for most employees. An attempt to 'drive performance' using this ranking system has resulted in disengagement of employees and to limit discretionary effort.

3.0
Mar 19, 2017

Good people, broken management structure

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Potential for great opportunities, provides great resources for certain jobs, great learning environment given the variety within one company. Headquarters is not in a major metropolitan area. Surrounded by incredible people in my group.

Cons

Good old boy system in many areas, getting fair chances at success becomes game of who you know and not how well/hard you work, required to sell yourself and get your name out there to achieve success, top heavy with young ladder-climbing managers not interested in actually helping the people they manage. PMP system completely broken with biased and uncontrollled management decisions allowing for inconsistent ratings/rankings that negatively affect employee morale. Ranking against "peers" has created unhealthy competitive environment where people will step on their teammates to benefit theselves. Creating unfair peer groups to be ranked against when the playing field is really not level (SMEs vs. generalists, any discipline vs. chemical engineers or chemists). Forced distribution ranking in small high-achieving groups where ALL members exceed expectations otherwise they would not last long in the group.

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