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      Alcoa

      Engaged Employer

      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

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Work/Life balance

      3.3

      Senior management

      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
      1.0
      Jan 23, 2014

      Worst place to work

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good salary is a plus

      Cons

      micro management and not adaptive to the changing business world

      2.0
      Dec 17, 2013

      It was a badly aging factory in a dying Midwestern industrial backwater of a town, peopled by unskilled geriatrics.

      Programmer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Actually, the pay was fairly high, considering the area, and the skills and education of the people doing much of the work - too high, actually, in many cases.

      Cons

      Most of the people there were nearing sixty, and had never worked at another job in their lives. They graduated high school and came to work there. They were xenophobic, jealous of their legacy knowledge, unhelpful, unschooled, and not terribly interested in making their process or their product any better. The middle management was recruited from those who were good at doing the manual labor, and there appeared to be no other requisite for those positions. Promotion from within does not work if those promoted are not qualified. The entire culture of this facility was a holdover from the 1950s; xenophobia, paranoia, fear and distrust of anything new (especially technology). Employees commonly sabotaged one another's work in hopes of coming to favor with their supervisors.

      3.0
      Dec 16, 2013

      OK internship in manufacturing

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Well paid internship with housing stipend

      Cons

      Limited learning opportunities and a boring work environment

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