Blah. No real employee value proposition anymore - Anonymous employee Eastman Employee Review

1.0
Feb 26, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most people tend to be friendly and helpful, but you never know when that helpfulness will come back to bite you in the form of negative feedback to your boss for not knowing how to do something.

Cons

There are a lot of downsides. Management more and more seems to think that continued employment and a paycheck every two weeks is the only benefit necessary. While this messaging may have been acceptable the past few years, the economy is much improved and employees are starting to walk out on these hardball tactics. The company culture is mostly an office space mentality where everyone does enough to get by because there is no incentive to do more. Promotions are very difficult to come by unless you are in the “in” crowd as Eastman is very political. Favoritism is rampant as well. Right now the environment at the company is not pro employee and very toxic. I would avoid it if you can.

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5.0
Mar 15, 2026
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Pros

Eastman has been the best company I've worked for in my career. They have a solid safety culture and room for growth.

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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