Arconic reviews

3.3

63% would recommend to a friend

(758 total reviews)
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Christopher L. Ayers

64% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Arconic has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 758 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Arconic 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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758 reviews
2.0
Feb 14, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Good 401K contribution, average pay.

Cons

Arconic Davenport Works is the flagship plant of the company, and is a stressful and chaotic environment. Not enough training and too much responsibility thrown onto new engineers, with little support system because everyone is spread so think. Raises were nothing more than cost of living increase. Promotion structure is lacking, and forces people to go into production if they want to rise in the company or get bigger pay increases. Also, process engineers will get calls 24/7 and end up working some nights or weekends.

2.0
Feb 14, 2018

Old company; old culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

New CEO seems to be focused on operational improvement, which is very important for a manufacturing company.

Cons

People are overworked and underpaid - especially in Finance. Many people blame this on the CFO having no direction. Former CEO (who was fired after a long proxy battle with Elliott Management) led the company to focus on perception rather than true improvement. Hard to be promoted within the company. Many people have been laid off recently, which still is not leading to upward mobility, just increased work with no additional compensation.

1.0
Feb 13, 2018

Down right terrible (experienced at one specific facility)

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You get to meet great individuals from OUTSIDE the company like field service and applications engineers that aid in the manufacturing process and pretty much keep this place going. Others are the big wig customer reps (which im not sure that i can mention here) mainly in the aerospace industry.

Cons

If your a temp with any experience look out!! This is a back stabbing, extremely stressful, very fearful and toxic work culture that facility managers promote as they are just as fearful for their job themselves. Watch what you do and say, production members will do whatever they can (cry, whine: as in complain in a feeble or petulant way, rat out, throw you under the bus, pass your good ideas off as their own, gossip, destroy your reputation and honest work you put forth) to get rid of you if they feel their position is threatened or if you display even an ounce of knowledge that could help the company out. If you do choose to work here, be a "yes man". Follow through with their terrible ideas, do all the hard dirty work and let your "lead" start the machines and take credit for your work. Make your boss (that knows nothings about the equipment he's supposedly familiar with) feel as though he created them while he stares blankly at the screen and gets a look inside the building chamber and asks you, the newest member of the team, "whats going on here??" and will probably have you conduct large company audits on several occasions while your "lead" takes a vacation (because that makes absolute sense right?)....if all of this sounds like your dream position then you're in luck!! enjoy being reduced to nothing and being asked to come in at all hours of the day to keep production going while your "lead" sits back in a chair all day on the production floor and takes naps in front of the production manager with no corrective action taken only for YOU to be laid off instead....as a temp, you will never be extended a job offer. watch out for the end of your 1 year contract marker as they don't renew contracts and don't give you any warning about that. They'll work you to your last day and say "see ya! :)" Greatest waste of time, tremendous stress level for little pay. And as a temp they say "you don't exist" as in you aren't apart of them or the company and will completely alienate you...Good luck to anyone that has to take this job. Took a great deal for me to drive up to work, even a greater deal to make it up to the time clock and actually punch in. It literally, physically made me sick everyday.

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