Corning

Materials-science technologies & specialty glass
Last updated:
January 6, 2026
Company details
HQ
New York, NY
HEADCOUNT
10000+
ORG TYPE
Corporate
SECTOR
Manufacturing & Industrials
About the company
https://nasdaq.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Global_External_Site
Locations and presence
Corning is headquartered in Corning, New York, and operates across more than 150 locations in 30+ countries, including a large network of manufacturing sites and R&D facilities. Work setup depends heavily on the role, with many plant roles being on-site while some corporate and tech roles explicitly allow hybrid or remote patterns.
Palpable Score
72.1
/ 100
Corning gives graduates plenty of entry points through internships, co-ops, and multiple rotational tracks that are described clearly enough to apply without insider context. Corning’s process transparency is better than many industrial employers because the company publishes hiring-process materials, but public interview feedback still points to uneven follow-up and pacing across teams. Pay transparency is a consistent plus in job ads, while early-career outcome reporting is mostly limited to program descriptions and social proof rather than published metrics.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

17.0
/ 20
  • The company runs recurring internships and co-ops across engineering and other functions, with public postings already live for Summer 2026 and Spring or Fall 2026 co-ops.
  • Corning advertises multiple structured rotational routes, including Engineering Rotational Programs (12–36 months) and functional rotations such as a Finance Rotational Program.
  • The company runs post-university tracks with explicit early-career framing, including the CORE (Corning Optical Rotational Engineering) program for graduates with no more than two years of experience and multiple start dates through the year.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

13.0
/ 20
  • The company publishes interview-process guidance that separates salaried and hourly hiring, rather than leaving candidates to guess what the steps look like.
  • Corning shares an hourly hiring “at-a-glance” process that spells out screening steps like an online assessment, verification test, and expected notification timing, plus a recruiting contact email.
  • The company has repeated public candidate reports describing missed calls, ghosting, or inconsistent timelines, which makes fairness and predictability feel team-dependent.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

15.5
/ 20
  • The company describes internship-specific development activities such as workshops, trainings, and structured programming aimed at building professional skills.
  • Corning’s rotational program descriptions explicitly include coaching, professional development, mentoring relationships, and experiential learning across multiple rotations.
  • The company’s learning detail is strongest for internships and rotations, while onboarding expectations for entry-level hires outside those programs are less clearly laid out in public materials.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

14.1
/ 20
  • The company frequently includes pay ranges directly in postings, including intern roles with biweekly ranges and many full-time roles with salary or hourly ranges.
  • Corning job ads repeatedly list core benefits such as medical, dental, vision, 401(k), pension, disability coverage, and PTO, which signals stable employment terms in many US roles.
  • The company has had publicly reported layoff activity and planned reductions in recent years, which adds some stability risk for early-career hires depending on site and business unit.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

12.5
/ 20
  • The company positions internships as a pipeline into future entry-level roles and includes structured end-of-internship deliverables like a final project presentation in some intern postings.
  • Corning publicly spotlights completion of at least one multi-year rotational cohort through program graduation posts, which is a concrete signal that some early-career cohorts run end-to-end.
  • The company does not publish cohort outcomes like internship conversion rate, rotational-program placement rates by track, time-to-promotion benchmarks, or early-tenure retention, so outcomes have to be inferred from program descriptions and scattered testimonials.

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