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W. L. Gore & Associates

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Sinking Ship - Engineering Leader W. L. Gore & Associates Employee Review

3.0
Jan 8, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The associates who practice the guiding principles and culture. The amazing products we provide that improve peoples lives.

Cons

The Enterprise Leadership Team is mostly comprised of external publicly traded company shareholder mindset with NO clue as to what made Gore unique and lack the long term view. Gore culture is now just a buzzword by leadership. The CEO whisperers are trying to turn Gore into Danaher. CEO could have reorganized with a couple year plan to execute as opposed to a couple months. Early retirement, attrition and addressing poor performance would have been a more appropriate approach to reorganizing. Gore has well over 400 long term associates that were impacted that chose to leave rather than post for their or another role. And now they have over 200 roles unfilled that they will need to hire externally. That has to tell you something about how Gore is operating now.

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5.0
Jul 16, 2026
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Pros

Culture and flexibility. Many leadership opportunities.

Cons

Culture in transition. Not easy for new hires.

1.0
Jul 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits and pay helps and feels great, initially.

Cons

The workplace culture is highly toxic and not as supportive of talent as they let on. High performers are targeted by internal cliques who deliberately engineer situations for them to fail. Management entirely condones this behavior, while simultaneously expecting absolute perfection from employees under impossible conditions—forgetting that people are not AI. Furthermore, professional merit is ignored; higher levels of education, years of experience, and employee longevity mean absolutely nothing. Management relies heavily on deflection and stalling tactics to delay growth opportunities. It is an exhausting environment that penalizes hard work and actively blocks career advancement. Overall, the company falls short with their original principles and core foundations for its employees/Associates.

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