Dupont Reviews

Pros

You can learn a lot if you decide to do it
Nice incentive to study
Global company
Nice low level employees

Cons

The carrots never gets released, no continuity when boss is changed, although one of the core values is respect for people, this concept is not well recognized by some leaders

Pros

Big company with a lot of opportunities in different fields. Work life is taken into account by management. You can have the opportunity of working with people with huge experience in the bussiness.

Cons

Sometimes the "walk the talk" is not done by management or employees, so do not trust everything you hear about how great the company is. For example, safety is one of the core values, but nowadays is getting more and more common see how some managers basically do not care and top management just accept. Money is becoming more and more important

Advice to Senior Management

Too slow to take decisons, that burns out some of the people downstream. Political issues are sometimes stopping decisions that are important to take fast.

Pros

Provides decent salary and benefits.

Cons

Unless you have an advanced degree, the career path is very limited.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should look at your experience and can you perform at your level instead of what degree you hold. Too much emphasis on advanced degrees. Forced bell curves rating systems should be abandoned. You should reward the good people and deal with people that don't meet the job expectations.

Pros

Good Benefits and nice people.

Cons

Lack of job growth for longer career employees

Advice to Senior Management

Treat people as individuals rather than the masses.

Pros

Strong focus on safety. Talented Scientist and Engineers. Opportunities to move within the company to other sites. Good yearly bonus.

Cons

Very few promotional opportunities making upward mobility difficult. Lack of support from HR due to outsourcing and cost cutting. Not a very good manager development process.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more frequent 360 feedback to managers, hire and develop managers to be more motivating. Recognize achievement and promote from within.

Pros

- big company with good name recognition
- great experience and lots of opportunity
- people and management helpful with projects

Cons

- slow moving
- bureaucratic processes to get things done
- complicated organizational structure

Pros

Great place to learn as a engineer

Cons

Senior Management typically has no clue how the plant and local sites are being run nor seem to care

Advice to Senior Management

Actually talk to someone at the local sites

Pros

Many opportunities For workers to learn new technology

Cons

Many layers in management. Too many meetings that could bring productivity down.

Advice to Senior Management

Watching closely that which dept is not bring any profit to the company.

Pros

Great place to work for new graduates

Cons

Difficult to get good placements - international opportunities

Advice to Senior Management

Think green

Pros

Does not demand very many hours per week if not in management. Many research projects are intellectually stimulating. Many great colleagues.

Cons

Uncompetitive pay and benefits. Uncompetitive compared with more agile and focused competitors. VERY slow to execute. Can be stifling environment for true innovators and entrepreneurial types.

Advice to Senior Management

Make a commitment to be the best again. Go back to the culture of the heyday years. Let the scientists run wild. Put them at the center. Be more like Google or Amyris.