Good place to work, recovering from economy - Anonymous employee Arkema Employee Review

4.0
Jan 20, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Community, respect for others, high professional standards, very good location, variety of research areas for chemcial industry, focus on green tech, recently updated IT to Windows 7 and improved access to internet

Cons

Organization suffers from "silo" mentality so info is not readily shared between groups. Sometimes too much focus on "going to the right school", Lotus Notes is painful to use and example of decisions made in France dictating US

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5.0
Jun 1, 2026
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Pros

Great people Great opportunities Willing to give more responsibility/grow Good work life balance while also still having good drive at work

Cons

Not a lot of cons, everyone is very understanding and the small office could be a downside for resources, but personally did not find that to be an issue

3.0
May 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Site Culture Global specialty materials strategy has proven to be quite good

Cons

Resource constraints. But this is quite common in chemicals/specialty materials these days from what I hear.

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