Novelis Reviews

I have been working at Novelis

Pros – Great people, fast paced, exciting place to be.

Cons – The company is moving so quickly that it's easy to lose people along the way...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Novelis

Pros – Good pay and benefits. Overall, it is a decent place to work if you do not have aspirations of advancing beyond the role you were hired for. During the recruiting process, they will tell you about examples of people who got promoted quickly. What they don't tell you is its only a handful of people who leave a trail of bodies in their wake to climb to the top to make face time with higher management.

Cons – This is a non-publically traded company owned by an Indian company. With this comes some politics of keeping the parent company happy. This company over the span of 4-5 years has seen many management changes. HR does not work for the employees but provides risk management to justify the firing of employees who were there before a particular management change and to justify the hiring of the incumbent management's friends and associates.

Novelis is essentially where careers go to die.

Advice to Senior Management – Seriously review your hiring and promotion practices. Stop promoting your friends into high positions and stop rewarding people who can manage upwards who know nothing about running a team of people below them. Make 360 evaluations mandatory and make it have an impact on an employee's promotion.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Novelis

Pros – Good pay, Unbelievable benefits, blah

Cons – No moving up, poor management/operator relationships

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the operator for suggestions on improvement and what is going wrong instead of always blaming problems on operators.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Novelis

Pros – Friendly people, well compensated. Great office in Atlanta, lots of growth opportunities for the company with exciting projects. Great place to start your career as a stepping stone to a better company.

Cons – It used to be a great company where management supported and nurtured their employees. But since about 2 years ago, with new management in place, they hired people who don't understand the business and only put their buddies into senior positions. So if you are not buddy buddy with senior mgmt, you will get no where. They promise a lot but deliver very little. The HR basically controls the careers and wages. Nothing gets approved without going through HR.

Advice to Senior Management – Take care of your existing people rather than concentrate on hiring new people. Stop all the in-fighting between the departments.

I have been working at Novelis

Pros – People, peers. Prestige and pride of the product. Diversified business model

Cons – Be wary of management styles running your organization. Had personality conflict with my manager. From an objective perspective I exceeded expectations/numbers, but was given negative reviews based on subjective arguments. This type of treatment and continued management by intimidation led to my reason for departure.

Advice to Senior Management – Allow 360 reviews of management. It's a shame to have left the company due to something as correctable. Valuing People btw is one of your core values -- please look into it

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Novelis

Pros – Interesting industry, very fast pace, a lot of room for great projects and room for improvement. Good benefits and competetive salaries, many different departments which create a good place to move through out the company.

Cons – Many changes with the move to Atlanta, no succession plan, which makes it an odd environement. Many new people were hired from the outside even when there was plenty of talent to pick from.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote from within...

I have been working at Novelis

Pros – An industry leader with good future, professional culture, fair with people, compensation and benefits.

Cons – Minorities and international workers will have edge for promotion

Advice to Senior Management – Excessive number of program and initiative "launches". Carfully select fewer of them to do very well.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Novelis full-time for more than a year

Pros – The brightest minds in the industry willing to share their knowledge with you. Clean and safe work environment. High regards to world EHS standards and practices. Employee health and benefits highly valued and really do care for all its employees.

Cons – Highly specialized workforce. You may never get to work or experience on projects other than in your own field.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Novelis full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Very good salary and benefits. Great co-workers.

Cons – Senior management is systematically destroying the company. It will take years to recover assuming new management attempts to turn things around. The move to centralize everything at head office is way too extreme. As others have said, HR is not on the employees' side.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the experienced people (those few who haven't left or been fired because they disagreed with you).

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Novelis

Pros – Not much anymore. Good people to work with at the plant level.

Cons – New management has essentially destroyed the company. Obliterated R&D - absolutely no scientific talent left Top heavy with redundant jobs, particularly at head office. Many new hires have virtually no experience in aluminum/metals where it is an absolute requirement. Lack of experience leads to poor business and technical decisions. Fearful and toxic environment. If you are not a "yes man/woman" you are considered a "blocker" and will get fired - there are numerous examples of this autocratic management style. People don't matter, it is all about the bottom line and making sure upper management is well cared for - simply ruthless, no ethics. HR is a joke and works against rather than for you. Regardless of what you hear the recent SAP implementation is a disaster - people frustrated and overworked, losing customers, missing delivery lead times, all sorts of problems which could have been avoided by not going "live" at such an immature stage of development. And whatever you hear, the timing of "going live" was company driven not by the consulting firm as they claim. Distrustful, egotistical, bureaucratic, dictatorial management. Quickly spiraling downward. Unfortunately what has been done will take years to repair, if ever, and that is only if someone morally sensible takes the helm.

Advice to Senior Management – A total reorganization is required, too many redundant jobs, hire quality people - most of the good ones are gone or leaving. The CEO needs to move on and destroy another company. Percentages in favor of CEO are skewed.... look at the number of reviews here and those who fail to rate.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company