Vale do Rio Doce Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Vale do Rio Doce full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good benefits package, good career perspectives, good support from company

Cons – You're expected to be available 24/7; working environment is quite agressive; quite bureaucratic and things take time to happen

Advice to Senior Management – Respect the boudaries private life/work

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Vale do Rio Doce full-time

Pros – Excellent pay, bonus and incentives.

Cons – Every year there is a push for everyone to conduct career and succession. I have done so many courses yet I am still sitting where I started. What was the point of the exercise if there is no advancement for staff.

Advice to Senior Management – Given all the change in structure and redundancies in the two "recessions" - surely you would get better at giving people the sack - letting people go just before Christmas or the "surprise sacking" does not give the remaining people high morale to continue their best work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Vale do Rio Doce full-time for more than a year

Pros – Big company and others itens that I prefer to no relate.

Cons – envoirement, colleges, kind of work, empowerment, etc

Advice to Senior Management – Vale needs a huge change.

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

Current Employee – been working at Vale do Rio Doce full-time for more than a year

Pros – safety first good safety procedure i like this type of safe work

Cons – no nothing to say downside to work

Current Employee – been working at Vale do Rio Doce

Pros – good sevice there all time

Cons – bad climate to worh in

Current Employee – been working at Vale do Rio Doce

Pros – Diverse job with directional focus

Cons – Long term view of assets

Advice to Senior Management – Define direction first

Former Employee – worked at Vale do Rio Doce

Pros – Very talented and knowledgeable employees. It was a pleasure to work along side many individuals who had incredible passion for their work. Working at Vale is a great opportunity to learn from coworker with extensive experience and knowledge. Management is fairly good at recognizing and rewarding talent whenever possible.

Cons – Many challenges as Vale becomes increasingly large. Need further incentives and development options to retain the most talent employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Create incentives for top talent to remain at Vale.

Current Employee – been working at Vale do Rio Doce full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – 2nd world´s biggest mining company

Cons – tend to restrict the oportunities due to China slow-down economy

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Vale do Rio Doce full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – I would say career opportunities, working environment, training and fringe benefits are indeed the high pros of Vale do Rio Doce.

Cons – Lack of communication and difficulty in turning when facing market turm-oil. Does not really promote innovation, but rather prefers to do more of what has "always" been done. No clear HR support on career path.

Advice to Senior Management – Management should strieve to promote better communication. Should also really promote innovation on a structured way rather than the fear culture I have been witnessing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Vale do Rio Doce full-time for more than a year

Pros – Very stable company, with a huge market for it's products. Offers a career with a very fixed time-frame for each step of promotion.

Cons – Does not promote inovation nor employees with special talents or a faster step for learning and evolving within the company. Allows friendship interfear too much in promotion decisions.

Advice to Senior Management – Try and evolve with the rest of the world, leaving the ancient concepts behind - try to turn yourself from a boss to a leader.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend