Rio Tinto Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Rio Tinto full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Excellent work/life balance
Great benefits
Reasonable commute
Awesome co-workers

Cons – Constant organizational change
Global managers that cannot manage
"Golden Handcuffs" keep people captive (also can be a pro)

Advice to Senior Management – The constant organizational change in the IT department is dizzying. Every time things start to stabilize with a possibility of improving, someone new comes in to shake things up. The IT side needs to decide if they want to compete against IT only organizations or realize they are part of a mining company and focus on serving who our customers are rather than acting like a public IT organization.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Rio Tinto

Pros – Good atmosphere
Good pay
Great benefits
Friendly employees
Guaranteed salary increases so long as you're working hard
Great place to advance a career in management

Cons – Lots of bureaucracy, it can sometimes be difficult to figure out who to get in touch with regarding questions you may have about something.

Can be hard to advance in your career in something other than management as they have entry-level positions that dead-end after only a couple advances.

Very large company, you often don't know who anyone is above your direct supervisor.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Rio Tinto

Pros – Rio is a good corporate citizen, locally and globally. They invest heavily on best practices and that makes for a well rounded employee.

Cons – There is no work life balance. Period. Expectations are un-realistic and local management is arrogant and has a bullying mentality, especially with the local mine, Kennecott Utah Copper. They treat their vendors and contractors like second class citizens.

Advice to Senior Management – Get over yourselves.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Rio Tinto

Pros – Good career opportunity, large organisation to develop knowledge of mining business.

Cons – A lot of politics, too large and may or be ale to make the right connections.

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Rio Tinto full-time for more than a year

Pros – Provides many benefits to employees
Provide opportunities for career progression
Support further education and training

Cons – Due to the size of the company, there are many formalities and policies, which may prolong the waiting period.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Rio Tinto full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Good people willing to share their knowledge and experience. Lots of travel if you like travel. Good perks available.

Cons – Poor executive leadership, disconnected from line staff. Short term focus driven by market. Corporate HR out of touch. Very bureaucratic.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Rio Tinto full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Strong on career development and providing employees with the opportunity to get knowledge from across the business. Good company if want to work overseas.

Cons – There are many layers of management and some central service departs are silos of bureaucracy. Can be very slow at making simple decisions as the culture if very 'softly softly' when comes down to changing the status quo.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Rio Tinto full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Solid work group. Good work ethics

Cons – Very regimental and in many areas, not what you but who you know

Advice to Senior Management – There are a large amount of local Australian people willing to work for a good company but the thought that only they can get a cheaper option from overseas and they are not ingrained in Aus Standards.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Rio Tinto full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great expat lifestyle with decent monetary and non-monetary benefits (healthcare, housing allowance, business class trips home)
Truly multicultural teams - exposure to many different work styles, experiences, opinions
Excellent environment and social/community programs - building a mine using IFC best practices

Cons – Isolated location - lack of leisure/dining options, inconsistent comms, site is imperfectly equipped to deal with medical emergencies and better help is a day away
Career development opportunities (understandably) skewed towards locals

Advice to Senior Management – Increase employee engagement by improving communication - project updates, explanation of decision drivers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Rio Tinto full-time for more than a year

Pros – People, challenges, opportunity, Life balance

Cons – Nothing, it's a Nice place to work