Alcoa Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Great opportunity to understand the whole manufacturing process."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Great people and nice environment. They have great benefits also."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself and honest. Alcoa is a very honest company."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Not many opportunities to grow and the salary is below average."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Understand the employees and their problems. Give to them more opportunities."

"I was a contractor that got hired on as an employee about 8 years ago."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"I enjoyed the team members I worked with at Alcoa."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I really don't have any tips, other than to be yourself."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"I'm sure it's the same with most large and even small companies, but the politics. Also it's who you know and not what you know that helps in moving up in the ranks."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To provide more positive reinforcement to individuals, more positive recognition."

"Very difficult place to work, if you're not unemployed, you can do better."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"There are lots of good people and lots of interesting work going on. But the company is so lean, there is never any time that is dedicated to people working on teams, it's very common to be on a project by yourself."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"This is a very rough environment to work in. Any person not desperate for work should avoid this corporation like the plague."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Nasty company, nasty management. Spend 95% of my time working on health and safety and cost saving programs. If you wanted someone for that why didn't you just hire another health and safety engineer? No opportunities to advance. Starts with great pay but insulting raises the rest of your career."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Have real expectations for employees. To engineer a process or to stay in production you need to invest capitol in to equipment. I can't engineer something out of thin air."

"It was the best experience I ever had."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"I like the Alcoa logo. I would like it if they had a banner or a blue flag that I could hang from my back porch."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The only suggestion I have to other people interviewing with the comany is that they should be themselves, Alcoans like to have friends and work with friends."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"There is nothing I don't like about the company. The people are great, the pay is fair, and it offers excellent opportunities to grow."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I have no suggestions, only congratulations. I wish all companies had a managment team as good as Alcoa's."

"The people, environment, and culture were really great."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"The people, environment and culture were fantastic. I really liked setting up the server room."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Relax and be yourself. If it's a good fit for both sides, you will get hired."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Sometimes long hours would take time away from my family."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Hard to say,since we are in the difficult integration process."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared for lots of changes from various sources, including Headquarters."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Most of what I do will be transferred to Headquarters or overseas."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Less meetings and more time to complete tasks and other requirements."

"Hiring process was through a temp agency, got hired permanent after 90 days."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"They were relaxed about education, really motivated company, allowed me to attend college."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The company is large and very competitive, so do a good job daily."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"When I would be finished doing chemistry in the lab, I was required to help out on the floor."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"I loved working together as a team. Very professional environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Try to sell yourself as much as possible. This intern will be able to give management a more considerable approach."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"There's nothing I don't like about working for Alcoa Fastening Systems."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"No suggestions needed. They were very professional, and were willing to provide proper assistance."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Great people, and interesting and challenging jobs that I enjoy!"

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Too much commute! Too much traffic! Every day I have to spend almost 2 hours."

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What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"It is close to home, steady work, and a good paying job w/benefits. The necessities!"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know that if hired, your life will be consumed with rotating work schedules and lots of hours at work."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Anytime company policy prevents you from attending a family member's funeral or you're a cancer patient and are being told to work chemo around your work schedule, you know something's wrong with the management, but with the number of people out of work these days management has the power to replace any job."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Implement a work schedule that allows all of the work force the same opportunity to manage a healthy home/work balance. Lose the Yes Man culture, everyone in upper management has the same opinion and if you want to advance you will too. It's ok to have a different opinion."

"Getting into Aero-space engineering was a great experience."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Having good employees to work with. being able to ask for help and receiving some within a reasonable time. Having an open office environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I would say that the company might need to look at how to minimize overstock inventory they produce and try to make the company more learn manufactures."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Not being able to see my self move up in the company in a reasonable time frame."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Look into hiring more people in certain fields to help speed up projects."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Love the people working with me and the location of the plant."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"No I don't. Just be yourself and have an open mind."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Some of the senior co-workers were very firm on their old ways of doing things."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More work training and rotation of the workers to learn more about other places in the plant"

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Although the facility is now closed, I enjoyed the support and challenges from senior management."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be straight up and truthful. Show your talents and skills."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"I was not fond of having to perform self audits of the H&S function. I believe this function should be conducted by independent source."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Outsource auditing completely to ensure that all functions are covered."