Alcoa reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(950 total reviews)
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Bill Oplinger

74% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Alcoa has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 950 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Alcoa employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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950 reviews
3.0
May 8, 2015

You get out what you put in

Recommend
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Pros

Looks good on the resume. Opportunities to learn A LOT. Pay was great (unionized)

Cons

Unionized-Some people don't care what happens, as long as they get their pay and do their 8 hours.

2.0
Apr 25, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Nice people, laid back Many high-level intelligent people

Cons

360 feedback with accompanying politics and backstabbing Too much management-1 in 5 Layoffs Few processes or procedures

4.0
Feb 16, 2015

Very good

Recommend
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Pros

For a huge company, I worked with a great set of people

Cons

Every now and then, as is normal for a big company, bureaucracy would interfere with good decision making.

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