Alcoa reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(209 total reviews)
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Bill Oplinger

74% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

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1.0
Sep 8, 2012

If you like wasting your time, then work here

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Salary, most co-workers are friendly, Health benefits are great

Cons

If you like wasting your time, then work here. It takes forever to get anything done as there is a massive papertrail. You cannot buy anything without 10 different people approving first. And if you have a breakdown, you need approval before you can get a part of out the warehouse. Then you get questioned on why it took so long to fix the problem. They keep reducing people (contractors, hourly, salary) in order to cut costs. No one is backfilling the old duties and everyone is getting over worked. They have unrealistic expectations that each person is going to have the next greatest idea to save millions of dollars. And demand that each person implements and tracks 2 of their ideas in a computer system. All they look at is costs, would rather not spend to save than to spend and save in the long run.

2.0
Sep 6, 2012

Going Downhill Fast

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Benefits, vacation time, bonuses and relaxed environment

Cons

too many middle managers, too much micromanagement, alot of execs having no idea what goes on, or turning a blind eye.

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