Great coworkers, great opportunities, but exhausting - Engineer Eastman Employee Review

4.0
Apr 22, 2022
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Pros

Super helpful coworkers. Opportunities to work on important projects and take on valued responsibilities while still early-career. Great development and mentoring for new engineers. Lots of variety; if you remain open to new experiences and communicate that to your management, you will never be bored, at least for your first ten years.

Cons

The pace of work gets faster and more intense every year. Constant and seemingly arbitrary changes in information systems and processes keep us all on the steep part of the learning curve all the time, which only makes it harder to keep up with the faster pace. Even a very simple task like "records management" (deleting documents when no longer needed) is made unnecessarily difficult through new IT "tools" that are mandatory to use. While job opportunities for young people are fabulous, they're not so great for people with 10+ years with the company.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

High pay and good learning environment

Cons

Interview process is kind of difficult

4.0
Jun 5, 2026
Recommend
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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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