Novelis Reviews

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...

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.

Pros

The paycheck is exccessively high for what the work is...

Cons

Management only manages keeping their friends in high places. Management does not support employees, favoritism and inflated egos run rampant, many good people throughout the plants - but HQ has become a very difficult place to be where there is no trust, and even HR is not watching our best interest.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of your inept management, hire people that have at least some work ethic, revamp the HR department to be advocates for the employees instead of a brute squad.

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.

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.

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

Pros

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Cons

not enough support for each localei

Pros

The money and work is good. My peers were the best. Benifits and overtime rates were excellet. It a union job with good protection from management.

Cons

The new managment at Novelis(formely Alcan) needs to trust their low level employees more. They have developed the attitude that the managers are the most important employees at the plant and they are micro managing. It can be dishearting to know that any work done by employess will be questioned if not reveresed all together.
 It "was" a great place to work but now it's just a job. A good job , but one that you can't really take an interest in because the senoir managers just will not allow it.

Advice to Senior Management

Let your employess work. Don't get so caught up in the paper-work. Your employees are your most important resource. Use them with respect and be honest with them. Untill you do this company will not reach it's potential in being one of the top places to work in North America.

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...

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.