United States Steel Reviews in Detroit, MI Area

Pros

Benefits, Pay, Tuition Reimbursement, Mobility

Cons

Lack of advancement, volatile industry

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

Money, money, and more money!!! All the overtime one could want, and then some. Lots of opportunities to do pretty much any job you want from working labor to operating heavy machinery. On top of that the hourly pay is good and quarterly bonuses are given out to all hourly employees. The pool of hourly employees is great. Lots of good and hardworking folks are employed there. Almost all of them will do anything to help you out and I think this provides a great atmosphere to work in. Some of the friendliest people I have ever met have been from there.

Cons

Management treats employees in a very non-friendly manner. Take your safety glasses off to wipe the sweat off them and they will send you home. They're that picky. Also, they do not like you to take breaks. Working in blistering heat and wearing multiple layers of heavy clothes can be hard on your body and sometimes you need to cool off. This fact is sometimes lost on management as they seem to think you are a robot. The word safety is thrown around constantly but is often just that, a word. Not all managers are like this but that seems to be the approach that USS trains their management employees to use with the hourly employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your employees with respect and try to work with them, rather than against them.

Pros

If you want to be exposed to a good Industrial environment than United States Steel is a great place to work. You will be exposed to many things quickly and will see how a big manufacturing company runs its business.

Cons

Sometimes working longs hours can be tough. The environment out in the plants is dirty and you have to wear Personal protective gear when working around machines and equipment. work environment can be noisy and sometimes it is hard to work with people of a diverse background and qualifications. Union environment is an example of that.

Advice to Senior Management

You must see the potential in the younger generation and keep them up to date of their future goals and opportunities.

Pros

Money, benefits, Money, benefits. Profit sharing.

Cons

Work-life balance does not exist. Management reacts does not act. Manage in fear of making a decision. Absolutely no recognition or praise. Very "old school" attitudes toward minorities and females.

Advice to Senior Management

Update yourselves! Stop being afraid to lead! Understand that people want direction and want to respect you.

Pros

Many different technologies are utilized which allow IT workers to gain a great deal of experience. Past developers seem to have utilized whichever technology they were most familiar with and this lead to many systems being pieced together by whoever the project was assigned to. While this is a poor way to design systems it does allow developers to gain experience in learning systems and learning the good and bad ways to develop code that can be supported easily in the future. The management I have worked with has also been very supportive of developers as they spend time learning new systems or new programming languages in order to complete their projects.

Cons

Recent company wide layoffs have left many people without jobs, despite what was going to be a record year in profit up until around August. The upper level management has not allowed the IT management to make any decisions as to who can stay and who cannot. This will result in the company losing a great deal of talent as the workers migrate to new positions before the plants are re-opened and the workers are asked to come back. Additionally, workers are often required to be 'on call' on weekends and holidays as the plant is (was) run 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in upgrading older systems to make use of new technology.

Pros

The best reasons to work for USS are the money and benefits.

Cons

There are absolutely no other reasons to work for this company. The entire work force, that does not have their own office, is threatened weekly of being terminated or replaced. There are cut throught tactics and back stabbing abounding. The corporation's culture is one of fear and self preservation.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn how other successful business' are able to have a healthy productive work environment while making smart talented decisions that are recognized and valued. Fear and intimidation is not necessary, it breeds dishonesty and discontention which your company has tenfold.

Pros

Good Money if you want to work your life away and be threatened with your job on a regular basis. If you want to give your life to your job then USS is a place to go.

Cons

Upper managment has a culture that is a fake - they do not practice what they preach in regards to their code of businsess conduct. USS gives a good front to the public, but their Mgt. employees related to production activities are at the bottom of their priority list. USS has managers working that are treating people with no respect, violating the code of business ethics that upper managment say is crucial to their business performance. The Mgt. ignore doing what is right and follow their secret society alegance within - BEWARE!!

Advice to Senior Management

Practice what you preach and make sure the managers below you are doing the same - investigate in detail all claims of non compliance and get to the bottom of the problems. Much wasted money and talents are being sacrificed do to a few key managers in existence within the organization. Remember it is the people doing the jobs and working in the trenches that keep the lights on and the steel going out the door for your profits. John Surma is out of touch with the ground level activities being masked by the many levels of Mgt below him this is unfortunate.