DuPont Reviews

Former Employee – worked at DuPont

Pros – Great place to work. work-life baalane, great benefit.

Cons – once you lost job and out of their system. it is hard to get back.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at DuPont

Pros – Large organization with diverse opportunities for growth

Cons – Large organization with feel of red tape everywhere

Current Employee – been working at DuPont full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – stability, opportunities to move around

Cons – union environment, too many systems

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at DuPont full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The hourly wage is good.

Cons – Mismanaged and lack of investment in infrastructure.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at DuPont full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good place to work if you wand a “job” where mediocre work is treated the same as hard work.
Seams like DuPont is not interested in hiring the best and the brightest. If this is you, then DuPont is a great fit.

Cons – Slow to respond to changing business environment.
Talent is not rewarded. Management is only now trying to address the growing disillusionment of medium to long term professionals. “To little to late” is the common sentiment of engineers and other professionals that are leaving after 2 to 10 years with the company to get similar jobs in the same region for much higher pay.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop relying on your reputation as a solid company, and pay comparable salaries to you talent.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at DuPont full-time for more than a year

Pros – Challenging assignments really push engineers technically. Very safety-focused. Stable employment. Wide variety of opportunities within the various businesses. Many businesses are really at the cutting edge of technology.

Cons – Salary is average. Very little take-home incentive to over-achieve as a young engineer. Projects follow a "rush and stop" flow a lot of the time. Good performers are rewarded with more work and longer hours.

Advice to Senior Management – Ensure adequate pay for your top employees. In other words, provide a larger incentive for excellent performance. The only way to recruit the best of the best out of school is to provide a financially-strong offer.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at DuPont full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – History of company discoveries has helped many but that is in the past. Safety of employees is still strong.

Cons – Major law suits in the past few years is very disappointing. Management spends more time doing "coverup work" than fixing the problems. Benefits are not good and getting worst. Pay, based on hours in a work week is very poor!!

Advice to Senior Management – Move on and let someone else lead us

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at DuPont full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Big company with some room to move around.

Cons – Very politically correct. More concerned with image than getting work done.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at DuPont full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Stable and secure employment, good compensation and benefits, solid training opportunities and programs.

Cons – Not an energizing company, little opportunity for advancement unless you have been preordained, senoir managers are rotated through the businesses causing disruption and lack of leadership continuity, pervasive fear among managers in making decisions, more concerned with image than substance,

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to make faster decisions that will help and lead your organizations instead managing up.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at DuPont full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Able to build up a career network

Cons – As an engineer, work not challenging; work with too many people that are not innovative & creative; big disconnect in what the company says and what it actually does

Advice to Senior Management – Hard to advise on this since it is striking how leaders and managers do nothing to change the culture and help those who are talented and driven. Status quo seems to be the way to go.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend