2.0
Jan 21, 2011
Anonymous employee
Current employee
Chandler, AZ
Recommend
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Pros
Alcoa has great benefits. You will learn how to work quickly and prioritize. You will meet alot of very smart people with alot of great ideas that they are afraid to share. Alcoa values their minority employees and takes that kind of diversity very seriously.
Cons
Alcoa is a very old, conservative company that values people who stay there a long time and not necessarily the people who do a great job. Innovation and new ideas are discouraged in favor of ABS dogma and the way we've done it for 100 years. What you accomplish will never be as important as who likes you. They are very suspicous of people recruited in from other companies and their ideas are marginalized.