Corning Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Busy auto industry supplier."

What do you like about working at Corning?

"Strong heritage."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Work hard, get along with others and the union."

"Contracts completed well."

What do you like about working at Corning?

"Great company and personnel."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Perm or contracts."

What don't you like about working at Corning?

"Only contracts available and not now."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Temp to perm."

What do you like about working at Corning?

"Career and personal life balance."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be enthusiastic about work but also real, no faking."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep being open to new ideas."

"Good company to work for."

What do you like about working at Corning?

"Great employees to work with. HR staff was always helpful. Many activities and always looking for employee input. Senior management was always visiting on the floor and talking to people."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Even though a very large company, keep actively interacting with the employees for surprise floor visits."

"Good place to start your career."

"It is what you make of it."

What do you like about working at Corning?

"Opportunity to work in Asia."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"A very conservative company."

What don't you like about working at Corning?

"Not a premier manufacturing company. Established culture is hard to break into if you are not entry level."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The organization is top heavy."

What do you like about working at Corning?

"Close to home, good pay, fun work."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Try to interview for a full time employee position and not a contractor position because contractors are not treated like employees."

What don't you like about working at Corning?

"Not having insurance benefits, being a contractor and not an employee."

"At the time, I was part of large layoff, they gave an excellent separatation package. I would work for them again because of that package."

What do you like about working at Corning?

"Good relaxed atmosphere everywhere except production management."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Do not make yourself look like a free thinker. At least in Wilmington they wanted engineers who fell into place and did it as it had always been done. Look like a responsible engineer willing to learn their way of doing things. Only a rare few were allowed to think outside the box. Those rare few had been with the company for a very long time."

What don't you like about working at Corning?

"Pay not extremely competitive, but adequate."

"Pretty much acurate."

What do you like about working at Corning?

"Job challenges, continuous improvement and advancement."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listening to peers for ideas, suggestions for improvement... continue this path."

""Best in Class" for Empowerment of Teams."

What do you like about working at Corning?

"Very team and goal orientated."

What don't you like about working at Corning?

"Market Lay-offs. Poor market analysis."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Invest in solid market research so that the company, it's stakeholder and its shareholders are not blindsided."

"Not the best place to work unless you need the money."

What do you like about working at Corning?

"The pay rate at the time was good for a college student's summer job."

What don't you like about working at Corning?

"Rotating shifts, every week is a different shift. Also working around a 2000+ degree oven is not the most satisfactory working conditions"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None really, as the job has to be done and the only way to make the process more appealing would cause many people to lose their jobs."

"Always learning new things on the job."

What do you like about working at Corning?

"Always learning new things."

What don't you like about working at Corning?

"12 hour shifts."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more open."

What do you like about working at Corning?

"The freedom to make decisions and cooperation of other employees to execute on those decisions."

What don't you like about working at Corning?

"Extremely long three hour commute round trip from Londonderry to Keene, NH."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Implement a 9/80 schedule giving employees every other Friday off similar to other Aerospace & Defense companies such as BAE or Raytheon."

What do you like about working at Corning?

"Environment."

"Creates an environment conducive for innovation."