Negatives far outweigh positives - Anonymous employee Eastman Employee Review

2.0
Mar 19, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Harmonious work environment, you will never hear yelling or swearing among coworkers. Good starting salary.

Cons

Lacking diversity, and the efforts to address are laughable. While they say there is no forced performance distribution, in reality, it coerced distribution; managers draw a line to meet the "suggested" distribution. Too much wasted effort on metrics to justify existence. Even the two pros are so extreme they end up being cons, need for consensus and harmony stifles creativity, empowerment, and challenging status quo, ultimately slowing change to a snail's pace. Good starting salary is quickly eroded by basically non-existent raises (once you account for benefit losses). Top heavy management, with senior management scared of shareholders. Unless you are a white, Christian, male, with stay at home wife and two kids, don't bother.

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5.0
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Pros

Stable, well paid, great benefits,

Cons

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4.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

Friendly, helpful colleagues. Vast variety of opportunities for engineers, especially younger ones. Actively supporting the communities where we live and work. Recent changes in management have restored positive outlook.

Cons

A lot of eggs are in the circular-economy basket rather than having the risk more evenly distributed among our product streams. We've lost a lot of talent recently to other businesses, partly because of unhappiness with former management but partly because of pay. Annual pay increases exist but have not even come close to keeping up with inflation.

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