Nucor Reviews

Pros

Pay was okay, but well below standards. Depending on what type of leader you get, your experience could be awesome and empowering.

Cons

I wasted decades here with the constant assurance that I was destined for moving up, great things. It was simply to keep me working as long as possible. Very disappointed. Some of the teammates are the best people I've ever worked with, but the leadership is filled with nothing but people who are echos of anyone above them. If you have any different opinions, ideas of the leader you have, you're simply not "Nucor" material and not on board their ideas.

Pros

Great place to learn as a first job out of weld school but if you have any prior experience keep looking.

Cons

Pay sucks for what has to be done on the spiral side working for long periods of time inside of 24” pipe isn’t worth $22 an hour. Benefits were great but the idea that Nucor came out with in early 2020 that the employees need to share more of the cost for health insurance is ridiculous. Promised performance based bonuses in early 2020 but Covid pushed back the timeline indefinitely, I don’t know if they ever got them. Micromanaging management but they can’t keep track of work orders or schedule. Backstabbing culture that is designed to get people to tattle.

Pros

the bonus makes you stay for the $ if you like making $70k base for the rest of your life, while giving up all life and relationships outside work phone, laptop, etc good for people that don't have career goals and are not in sales

Cons

-force you to come into the office during COVID even though most people are working from home at Nucor -extreme micromanaging managers will send 15 emails/calls a day to ask if you did something yet -managers find every reason to give you a "write up" , then put you in a room full of managers to explain why you think its okay to talk about anything personal at work -NO career advancement, NO culture, NO values -you are not valued as a person, you are only a money machine to them. if Nucor doesn't come first to you, they will fire you or make life difficult -0 training for the role, 0 appreciation for your impact on the team, being the only person in the role, managing multiple locations' needs, with no support, and still delivering excellent results -80+ hour weeks and forced to travel to see people DURING COVID -toxic workplace/borderline abusive of managerial power; disrespectful and intrusive managers -high employee turnover in sales for all of the above reasons