A continuous pride-swallowing Seige - Anonymous employee Alcoa Employee Review

2.0
12 Aug 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Alcoa offered me a ridiculous amount of money out of college to work at their Corporate Headquarters which was a beautiful location, very clean with lots of training opportunities.

Cons

Many of the managers are promoted and/or hired in with no competency whatsoever. Men rule the roost while women back-stab each other for the scraps. I saw many talented people get disheartened and leave while many incompetent managers have stayed and prospered. There is no system in place to get rid of the "dummies".

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Ability to work 100% remote.

Cons

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