United States Steel Reviews

Pros

there are good health benefits.

Cons

Upper management needs to be cleaned out. this is not the 50's, so we need some fresh blood and cannot run the company like it is the 50's. So there is a recession...the way to make money wouldn't be continue to make a million mistakes, pay for screw ups, which end up costing us more money! Hire people! We are understaffed. Also, expected to work long hours with zero flexibility. This is the age of 4-10hour days, and working from home, or maybe even a comp day when you are working all weekend...but not at USS.

Advice to Senior Management

Maybe if you asked suggestions from those employees who decisions would affect, better decisions could be made. We know upper management thinks they know the best and only solutions, but they dont actually understand the decisions in the first place. GIve us some promotions. Look at your layers of people! Care about your employees and they will care about you!

Pros

good benefits, good union employees

Cons

sucks to work here
long hours
no compensation
don't care about you

Advice to Senior Management

NEED TO KEEP YOUR TALENT, LOSING LOTS OF TALENT, GETTING TONS OF DELAYS AND NOT MAINTAINING EQUIPMENT

Pros

The benefits are great, in my opinion. The managers also allow for a great work life balance.

Cons

In town, which is not so bad but inconvenient. Very corporately structured and nothing can be accomplished without some type of bureaucratic process.

Advice to Senior Management

Give less experienced employees more opportunity to grow, and compensate for that growth. There seems to be a mentality that unless employees have 15+ years experience, their ability to move up within the organization is very limited.

Pros

Decent pay and benefits. Many chances to serve the community and a fairly stable future. Good opportunities for growth in the right fields.

Cons

Limited respect for work_life balance. With a very flat management organization, the company has limited advancement opportunities. Unreasonable work expectations and little support of front line management.

Advice to Senior Management

Suggest focusing on creating real development opportunities for new employees and implement changes to new provide opportunities for mid level managers.

Pros

The people, Great location, reasonable compenstion, good benefits

Cons

poor career options, no 'alternative' working opportunities such as working from home.

Advice to Senior Management

Update policies to be more flexible with work options.

Pros

Fair Pay
Good Benefits
Litte to no actual work required
Flexible regarding time off
Generally Pleasant people
Involved in the community

Cons

No professional growth
All strategy is kept secretive
Poor communication from management
Outdated thinking and policies and procedures
Astoundingly high amount of paperwork and approval to get anything done

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees with the respect they deserve regarding responsibility, if you let someone assume a job, let them do it!

Pros

Alright pay, alright benefits, not much experience necessary, don't have to be the sharpest nail in the box to fit in and will give you good experience on how not to act as a manager.

Cons

The company actually believes that employees should not be promoted, should only get a 3% raise max (only if company is making a profit) no matter how good of a job you do and they give you an unrealistic matrix to meet to get that. You will have to have 30 years service to move up one level on the corporate ladder (if they don’t hire someone from outside the company for the job). US Steel does not pay employees as if they are an asset but treat them as they are a liability. This company is like working at a dead end job with no future other than a good pension after 30 to 40 years (if you can stand the dirty, the dusty, the heat, the cold, the stinky environment, morally abusive management, unethical management, and all the rest of the BS the company pushes that isn’t true.)

Advice to Senior Management

US Steel employs a lot of very talented workers but for some reason will not pay them for what their worth. (e.g. if an employee is very good at running a operation rather than to pay that employee a couple of extra dollars per hour they will hire someone and pay them $50,000 a year to someone with no experience and no idea of what they’re doing for some reason) Get up with the times on your management style, it is not 1920 anymore threaten someone with their job every day is not going to make them very productive. Why is it so hard for the upper management to see that? A hostile work environment is not a safe work environment?

Pros

Money
Benefits
Money
Money
Did I say benefits?

The only real benefits is money. Your degree wont mean much, because they will stick you wherever they need you. An electrical engineer can very easily be placed in a shift supervisory position. beware.

Cons

Lots of overtime
Dirty and unhealthy work environment
Stressful politics
Zero tolerance attendance policy
They will move you form plant to plant -- job to job -- at their whim
They do not care about family lives
The managers are "against" the hourly
Shift work
Equipment old and falling apart
They do not promote through the ranks; they hire from the outside for management
For this company, you are definitely a number
NO job satisfaction

Advice to Senior Management

Treat managers better, promote from within the ranks, and bring some professionalism to the company.

Pros

The history of the company is very rich and pay is very competitive.

Cons

Too many levels of management, lack of a clear message and overall poor manage throughout.

Advice to Senior Management

All the senior management needs to retire and leave behind the old way of doing things.

Pros

The pros are all about compensation is pretty good, good benefits (eye, dental, healthcare), matching 401k, old pension plan. Hours are ok. No required overtime.

Cons

Way too much paperwork. How anyone in the BSC gets anything significant done is amazing. Hell 5 years ago someone would call for help and we would just get it done. Now it takes 3 hours of paperwork and approvals to even start working on things. Ridiculous! The old time mainframers in Pittsburgh have pushed down their archaic standards on everyone else. Get with the times people!

Dirty, filthy, unprofessional work environment. Clean the place up! I should come to work and be proud to work there, not ashamed of what a pit the place is. We can't even give us janitorial service on a consistent basis. Really?

Advice to Senior Management

This is 2010, not 1950. Run the company like you'd want it to be if you worked here. I think we need to clean house from top to bottom and get rid of the useless managers that are around. Promote people that do a good job, promote union workers who know what's going on. Stop the nepitism. Do not promote the uselss ones that you don't know what to do with. Fire incompetent people. Stop micro-managing everyone. If you give someone some responsibility, have some confidence in them to do things right. If not, why did you give them the extra responsibility? The company really has a lot of talented people that put in a lot of effort. Let's start rewarding those people.

Finally, clean the place up. Pave the damn roads in the plant. Just because it's a steel mill doesn't mean everything has to be falling apart and filthy.