DuPont "employee-first" culture hasn't been true since 90s. The business challenges at DuPont and the executive succession in 90s killed that image. DuPont used

DuPont "employee-first" culture hasn't been true since 90s. The business challenges at DuPont and the executive succession in 90s killed that image. DuPont used to be dream company to work for most new ChE graduates. I worked at Dow in mid-90s. I still have friends at both Dow and DuPont in addition to being stockholders of both companies. I doubt the merger will be approved by US, EU and possibly Chinese regulators without major concessions. The subsequent 3-way split in 18-24 months is just trying to appease the regulators to approve merger. If merger goes through, there will be no major player at least in specialty chemicals in US and most probably 3-4 major players in this segment worldwide. Other proposed segments have similar issues.