What do you like about working at Alcoa?
"People and technical challenges."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be prepared to be grilled on every aspect of you career path."
What don't you like about working at Alcoa?
"The drifting away from making metal to being more in touch, but only in speeches."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Get back to basics: fair pay, fair benefits and advancement."
"Alcoa Automotive Castings was sold."
What do you like about working at Alcoa?
"Team environment. Challenging market."
What don't you like about working at Alcoa?
"Alcoa sold business unit after merging it with Alcoa Auto and Truck Structures."
What do you like about working at Alcoa?
"I enjoy my job, I am good at what I do here. Great people to work with."
What don't you like about working at Alcoa?
"Alcoa corporate, too much Big Brother."
What do you like about working at Alcoa?
"The work was different from day to day, building machines from start to finish. Being able to run most all machines in the shop."
What don't you like about working at Alcoa?
"It was pretty great. No complaints."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"A little more organization."
"Good company."
What do you like about working at Alcoa?
"System in place that allowed each plant to succeed. Great safety program."
What don't you like about working at Alcoa?
"Not there anymore."
"One line cannot adequately describe the situation, as the location was recently sold by Alcoa."
What do you like about working at Alcoa?
"Great people, though not always competent. Diverse tasks that allowed you to take on responsibilities not otherwise seen."
What don't you like about working at Alcoa?
"After the sale, significant job reductions of people who contributed."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"After 4 presidents and 3 CFO's in five years, I don't know that the problem can be easily fixed. Focus on controlling inventory."
What do you like about working at Alcoa?
"Not much."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Good luck."
What don't you like about working at Alcoa?
"Horrible communication, incompetent senior management, ridiculous amounts of red tape."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Clean house."
"Alcoa was a great place to work."
What do you like about working at Alcoa?
"Great people and a good clear vision and direction by management."
What don't you like about working at Alcoa?
"Can be a little too political and old school chummy."
"Great company."
What do you like about working at Alcoa?
"Strong company with very good values and good opportunities."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"You need to be very safety-oriented and live the Alcoa Values."
What don't you like about working at Alcoa?
"I was on the injection molding division and they moved the plant to Juarez, Mexico."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Everything OK."
"Engaged and a contractor having sold the former company."
What do you like about working at Alcoa?
"Contract position."
What don't you like about working at Alcoa?
"Company has been sold."
What do you like about working at Alcoa?
"It was an excellent opportunity to expand on my manufacturing experience, specifically in the area of Lean Manufacturing, Cost Reduction and Finance."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Yes, answer truthfully."
What do you like about working at Alcoa?
"Very safety orientated company, a company that was really concered about the people."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Try your best to get in...great company!"
What don't you like about working at Alcoa?
"I don't like the way they moved their operations into Mexico...NAFTA."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Keep all options open and be quick to listen and slow to speak."
What do you like about working at Alcoa?
"Great company to work at."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Work hard, and give 110% of yourself. You will get rewarded."
What don't you like about working at Alcoa?
"Fact that they moved from El Paso."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"None, all people there were great."
Alcoa has an overall rating of 3.9 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 122 Alcoa Review Ratings left anonymously by Alcoa employees, which is equal to the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 93% of employees would recommend working at Alcoa.
Alcoa employees earn $60,000 annually on average, or $29 per hour, which is 9% lower than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 13 Alcoa employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Alcoa Salaries by Job Title.
93% of employees would recommend working at Alcoa with the overall rating of 3.9 out of 5. Employees also rated Alcoa 3.8 out of 5 for Company Culture, 3.8 for Rewards You Receive, 3.4 for Growth Opportunities and 3.9 for support you get.
According to our data, the highest paying job at Alcoa is a Assistant General Counsel at $251,000 annually. Browse Alcoa Salaries by Job Profile.
According to our data, the lowest paying job at Alcoa is a Research Technician at $14,000 annually. Browse Alcoa Salaries by Job Profile.
According to reviews on CareerBliss, employees commonly rated the pros of working at Alcoa to be Company Culture, Growth Opportunities, People You Work With and Person You Work For, and no cons.
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