Alcoa Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"If you want to be a yes person and do not think Howmet wants you"

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Doing outside audits for Howmet Corporate."

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

"If you want to spend more time playing company politics than getting things done, Howmet is for you."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Upper management had their own agenda which was not in line with Corporate. You were rated on how well you did on corporate policy but they would not let you implement the corporate policies and then held that against you. My position, as other process owners, need more say in how their areas were run from supervisors to floor personal."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to and support your process owners. If your decision was to go against corporate policy then take that responsibility and stand behind it. Do not turn around and place blame on your process owners."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Personal safety."

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

"Show learning experience."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Higher management knowledge."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Renew and training."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"I made the decisions."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Travel."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take your job seriously."

"Experienced management."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"The people."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Dangerous operation."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Treat people equally."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Location and job flexibility."

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

"Be an oracle expert."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Politics."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to your employees."

"Do not check your principles at the door if you work here."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"I liked working with the manufacturing personnel at the Mexico sites."

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

"I would ask what their stance is regarding ethical behavior by their management team."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"The management group lies and misleads their customers in order to avert correcting production issues. I worked as a program engineer at a Mexico site where the plant manager lied to Harley Davidson about run at rate phase. Worst of all he did this while we were in a meeting making us all accomplices in his lie."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would suggest that the plant manager in Piedras Negras and the Program Manager from Farmington Hills take an ethics class. When a person comes forward with concerns about how business ethics are substandard, don't look for a way to get rid of this person. It only prolongs the agony for all involved at the site."

"Valuable work experience."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Alcoa provided some valuable work experience."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"People from business to business were/are not treated fairly with respect to compensation, benefits and resources."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Acquire some competency."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Good work experience."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Nothing."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Best benefits package I've seen for a large company. Lots of overtime."

"Excellent learning experience."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"The pay, benefits, and employees."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"The 12 hr shifts."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If an employee does not take pride in their work and the company, then have them move on."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Very much."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Laid off people."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Change management."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Nice place to work except for one big thing."

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

"Don't, you can find a better place to work."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"The Management have no clue, They keep making the same mistakes, shooting themselves in the foot over and over. They'd rather pay to have something done overseas wrong 3 to 4 times than to keep their knowledgeable people here that will get it done right the first time. I have seen over and over this company let good people go to take the cheap way out and they get what they pay for, but don't seam to get it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get a clue! And put more into the good people that work there."

"Great learning experiences."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"The work force."

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

"Good luck."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Management's inability to listen."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pay more attention to your people, a great asset."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"Interesting work."

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

"Good company to work for."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Nothing."

What do you like about working at Alcoa?

"I enjoy my position, and the opportunity that I was given to utilize my skill."

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

"Good company, once a great company, still has bright future."

What don't you like about working at Alcoa?

"Politics in the workplace!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Allow people with the skills to perform their jobs and help Alcoa grow!"