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Q&A With Alcoa Employees
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How employees describe working at Alcoa
Understanding heat stress, and break time.
Good place to work at
Change culture - very very arrogant and dumb
Great salaries and benefits, interesting but cyclical industry, good and smart people, hard-working culture
Review from HR Dept
they treat people like machines. It's not a great feeling. If you bring up safty concerns they try to finde ways to Fire
What it's like to work at Alcoa
- Alcoa employees generally work 10.0 hrs a day
- Employees at Alcoa report the work pace is moderate
- On a typical day, employees at Alcoa have 0 meetings
- 78% of Alcoa employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
- Alcoa employees most often take 10-15 paid vacation and sick days each year
- 33% of Alcoa employees report they are happy with their work life balance
- Alcoa employees never get valuable feedback on how to improve at work
- 56% of Alcoa employees call their work environment negative
Q&A With Alcoa Employees
IDX: 0 TOT: 72
Does Alcoa drug test or do a background check?
Top Employee Response
Yes to both
Does Alcoa have a problem with CBD, Delta-8, or other legal substances?
Yes and yes which they should!!
How flexible is your work schedule at Alcoa?
It's not
Not very flexible, but better than some other places that I've worked.
Not at all, no variance for change or personal emergency
What Operations department questions did Alcoa ask during your job interview?
If I would work rotating shifts and be willing to give it my all
Just general ones as they came up such as how many employees, what shifts they work, how departments are compartmentalized, etc.
Very generalized at first, then, I was actually put in front of a PC and some schematics and asked to demonstrate/explain answers.
How can I improve my chances of being hired at Alcoa?
Good resume and good interview, like any job.
Look somewhere else. Degrading and belittling will happen to you. 4 people quit in 1 day last year, 2 of them supervisors.
Get factory experience and have a great attendance record.
How would you compare interviewing at Alcoa to other places you've interviewed?
Same
Frustrating
Stressful compared to other places.
What benefits does Alcoa provide?
Good medical, dental, 401k. Small bonus.
Full Benefits +pension for union sided employees.
Medical,dental,401k
How much and how often do raises happen at Alcoa?
Once a year
Negotiated yearly for company. Negotiatiated every contract for union.
Depends on the contract agreements
What's the best part of your job at Alcoa?
Some of the other employees
Your peers you work with
The people I work with everday
What's the pay like for Operations roles at Alcoa?
Competitive, but could use a hazard pay incentive.
Pay is good.
Average
How's the leadership on the Operations team at Alcoa?
Only a few supervisors know what is going on and how to execute task properly. Poor leadership at the top people are scared to lose there jobs at lower levels within the company.
Leadership belittles and harasses teams. Customer service is nonexistent- only thing that matters is making the number. Shipping months early is common place.
They seem to be in over there head
What's the vibe like in the Operations dept at Alcoa? How many hours are you working?
12hrs-16hrs per shift. 56hrs-72hrs/week
You are pulled in so many different directions that nothing gets finished. We cannot work more than 62 hrs per the policy but we routinely get in 55-60 a week.
A lot of uncertainty. Things are not being run like they used to be. Currently 36- 48 hours a week once vacations start it will be 60 hours every week. Unfortunately!!
What do employees at Alcoa think about their benefits?
Could be better
In general, pretty good. However pensions for hourly employees were done away with recently.
How does Alcoa handle HR issues?
They don't our HR department at our plant doesn't help at all they're more worried about getting people wrote up
HR issues were fairly poor a few years ago and have gotten exponentially worse. We have had new hires show up for orientation and no one expected them or met them, so they backed out. We've had other people sign hiring papers and be told they would start on a certain day and then be called back and told there was no opening. I'd run if that were me.
What's the internship program like at Alcoa?
Well, at least they do internships. From what I've seen, they can be very useful or poorly structured. It's a mix.
Cheap labor that will work for 12-16 hrs
What's the work from home policy like at Alcoa?
There is none!!
Very few jobs have work from home capability. The bulk of salaried jobs will require overtime and relocation every few years if you want to move up. Hourly jobs will definitely have overtime.
In your opinion, what are the most common interview questions that Alcoa asks?
It can be all over the place, it depends on if your interviewer is familiar with the job they are hiring for.
Could you keep your phone in your locker while working
What was the most difficult question that was asked during your interview at Alcoa?
Looking back to Oct 04, my hiring interview, I can honestly say nothing really. I feel the 2 week classes, the teachers, class interaction, was all super good for preparation out on the floor!!!
Questions were not difficult, I am good at what I do. Difficult part was waiting, had an appointment for 10 - waited an hour, talked to hr waited another hour for next person.
What questions do they ask during the interview process at Alcoa?
Situation ethics
It was 6 years ago, don’t really remember
What kind of people succeed at Alcoa?
Men
People who say yes.
How's the work life balance at Alcoa?
There is no work life balance. You are not “allowed”to work more than 65 hours. So working 64 hours is what is required. OT is mandatory and if you are salary - like I was 24 hrs on “end of month” is expected.
Good, only complain is not having any sick days.
What's the office vibe like at Alcoa?
It is not team oriented. Passive aggressive is norm, Belittling and yelling is the only constant. I would not send my worse enemy there.
Timid and stressed about securing there jobs.
What should I wear for an interview at Alcoa?
Top Employee Response
Depends on the job, business casual would cover most.
Dress shirt, jeans, etc. For company positions Slacks.
What's the company culture like at Alcoa?
Stressful, optimistic, would like better feedback from the company side on how operations are going.
No, work life balance..
What's the Operations team like at Alcoa?
Motivated, but lacking experience.
There are not enough hours in the day to finish workload. 60 hrs is common.
What are you most excited about working at Alcoa?
Leaving after 5 1/2 years
Pay check
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Should I work at Alcoa?
42% of Alcoa employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 20% are neutral and 38% would not recommend working at Alcoa to their friends.
| 42% | Promoters |
|---|---|
| 20% | Passive |
| 38% | Detractors |
