Alcoa reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(950 total reviews)
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Bill Oplinger

74% approve of CEO

63% 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
Mar 11, 2014

No Work/Life Balance

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company has competitive pay, good benefits package and a friendly atmosphere

Cons

they preach a work/life balance at the same time asking you to work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, they have a tendency to try to integrate themselves into your life (stop smoking, lose weight, exercise, join a gym), it is great that the company endorses good health, but shoving it down an employees throat is not condusvice to a good working relationship. When people leave the company, they are generally not replaced, the work load is spread over the people who are left.

3.0
Mar 3, 2014

Semi-Annual Layoffs

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Pros

There were a lot of advancement opportunities (not sure if there still is), the people are good and seem to care about one another

Cons

Political, very slow to change, layoffs every 6 months, tend to keep the non-performers because someone likes them, knee jerk reactions

1.0
Jan 23, 2014

Worst place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good salary is a plus

Cons

micro management and not adaptive to the changing business world

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