Gerdau reviews

Still an old boys club in 2018. Good employees and leaders tend to leave the company, poor developement, poor recognition. Poor recruitment, nothing being done to retain or improve dynamic thinkers and leaders. Leadership just talks, no walk. Many upper management staff have never really worked ( hard) in steel plants at the front lines, or they seem to forget what it is like.

Upper mgmt in Brazil used the 2008 financial crisis as an excuse to "re-organize" the I.T. dept. (translation: fire a whole bunch of good, long term people and replace them with contractors or Brazilians). IBM Brazil was brought in to assimilate the U.S. and Canadian I.T. operations. They are worse than inept. They make huge, enterprise wide changes without telling anyone. No problem. Except that said changes break working systems more often than they fix anything, incurring production downtime. And yet, no one in Brazil seems to care. Why? Because IBM Brazil is cheap. That is the only factor by which they run their I.T. dept now. Gerdau Ameristeel I.T. used to be cutting edge - the envy of competitors. Now it's run like a Brazilian dollar store. I.T. careers go to Gerdau to die. I'm glad I'm out.