Evonik reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(818 total reviews)
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Christian Kullmann

56% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Evonik has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 818 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Evonik employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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818 reviews
3.0
Sep 16, 2015

Process Research Co-op

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Pros

Great experience working in a multinational corporation. Seemly great benefits program (I cannot verify as I was a coop = no benefits). Office in Horsham was being remodeled, but was a nice environment with good labs. The other employees seemed to work well together, but have a tendency to get very catty/insulting to others if they are afraid for their jobs (a la stress passed down from upper management, see below).

Cons

Other segments of the company (i.e. headquarters in Germany) do not communicate well to the US-based offices in Horsham, PA and Parsippany, NJ. Management tensions are high and passed down to other employees and staff. I never participated in this, but as a co-op I could tell others were purposely rude/negatively impacting others work out of spite/fear they would be promoted. These issues whizzed right over my head but made the company look really, really bad. Also, many employees use interns as a "stepping stone" to make themselves look better among their peers. It honestly felt like I was a child in between two parents divorcing, with grown adults not able to act professionally at times.

4.0
Sep 15, 2015

Good company to work for

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Pros

High level of corporate responsibility regarding environmental, safety and quality issues which extends to good working conditions and benefits for employees. Great coworkers.

Cons

Career development is tricky if you don't work in Germany or have the desire to move there. Some departments are overly bureaucratic and political. Very German culture (can be positive and negative).

4.0
Sep 4, 2015
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Pros

Pleasant atmosphere, well structured (mostly), good attention of private life, salary is good.

Cons

Very hierarchical, career development is slow, not really multinational but German with international presence: German language is almost essential to progress.

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