Rio Tinto Reviews

Pros

Rio Tinto has the best benefit package I've ever seen. Salaries and bonuses are at or above market. Very intelligent & motivated people work for Rio Tinto, which makes it a great environment to work in.

Cons

Work life balance is not always the best. There are a lot of deadlines, high expectations to produce quality results, with limited resources at times. Hard to get hired by Rio Tinto unless you are an engineer or unless you start at the bottom and work your way up.

Advice to Senior Management

Make all managers do a 360 review which is part of their performance review. More non-financial recognition for employees would go a long way.

Pros

1. Encourages creativity and independant thought
2. Professional opportunities are abundant
3. Great compensation
4. High calibre professionals
5. Motivating and rewarding
6. Technologically advanced

Cons

1. Internal politics can be very frustrating and impede progress.
2. Quite formal and uptight working environment.
3. After work hours meetings (due to different timezones) - not for everybody

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure true collaboration between different Business Units. A slight shift to a bit less formal and uptight work environment may improve team spirit and collaboration.

Pros

company cares for the employees. It's graduate program is very good for inhouse training and equips the graduate for a good future

Cons

heavy on workload and a lot of pressure. Don't have much time for personal life at times and that can be frustrating.

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the good work. To continue focusing on the growth of the employes and the organisation as a whole.

Pros

During my time at Rio, I felt I was given excellent training and presented with several interesting opportunities and responsibilities. The team I worked for was particularly wonderful to work with and I felt a lot of solidarity was fostered amongst us co-workers. I also felt that the benefits were excellent.

Cons

Due partially to the fact that the office was mainly senior management, the office environment was rather stiff and at times overly formal for the most part though not unfriendly.

Pros

Managers respect workers, clean nice organised place to work pay is not the best nor is it the worst but is very comfortable. Safety is excellent. Can develop good leadership skills especially on some sites

The Brand name is prestegious.

Cons

Its so stable it is frsutrating to be an electrical engineer. Everything is faultless but I almost fall asleep daily at work. Inovative ideas are not respected and are stamped out and talented people usually board to death. If the following statement agrees with you:
"I want to achieve the impossible, and be driven to achieve using skills and inovation to my limits"
then RIO may be too repressive as tall poppies are cut down very fast.
I get excellent training excellent pay but I am underchallenged so badley I really want to leave . It scares me that one day i will become fat and lazy due to my work environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Trust your engineers with safety. Let them lead the technical engineroom to drive the sucess the company wants. Dont just rely on contractors to do all the design as it just kills the last remenets of intersting work which develops stars from within.

Pros

Big comany with lots of opportunties

Cons

Failure to set clear priorities means that everyone is trying to work on everything at once and very little real progress is made.

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.

Pros

Work life balance is supported. Above average salary and benefits.

Cons

Promotions are hard to achieve. Employees must change positions or locations in order to advance. Culture is very political, making it about "who you know" and not about work performance.

Advice to Senior Management

Reward and recognize your best talent. Provide upward mobility and growth opportunities for internal experienced candidates instead of hiring recent college grads with entitlement issues and no solid work ethics.

Pros

Prestige of the Rio Tinto brand. Benefits offered by the company. Strong safety culture

Cons

Everyone is focused on achieving their bonus and covering their butt. There is no team playing. Policies and procedures are not applied consistently. HR is there to support management, there is not concern for employees to ensure process is followed correctly for discipline matters

Advice to Senior Management

Money is not everything and employees will not stay is they do not feel they are being valued and challenged in their positions

Pros

Excellent Benefits and it's a very prestigious company to work for and be proud of affiliation.

Cons

Work is divided up and spread throughout too many departments which makes each department a dead end without advancement.

Advice to Senior Management

Annual reviews shouldn't be based on global criteria that has little relevance to every position, location or actual work required.