Rio Tinto reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(2,421 total reviews)

Simon Trott

59% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Rio Tinto has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,421 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Rio Tinto employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energía, minería e infraestructura pública industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
4.0
May 24, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Generally, good compensation and benefits, supportive leaders, large company so lots of growth opportunities if you seek it, good working environment that provides challenging work and a corporate value system that resonates with majority of employees. Career progression is often favoured towards those who can do more with less (or generate efficiency at scale) which is typical of IT divisions where cost is often a central focus (e.g. vendor/service rationalisation).

Cons

Within IT, very high contractor to FTE ratio and insufficient level of internal (FTE) resources which makes it difficult to sustain new knowledge and expertise due to contractor churn coupled with inability to hire/convert. There is a strong preference to outsource/partner to manage risk and liability rather than to build and assemble winning teams using internal resources. Its a large company, so there is lots of governance and process which can feel like its difficult to get things done. There is some degree of re-organisation that occurs every 18-24 mths due to leadership changes/transformation work. Internal resources are often overloaded and diversity (gender and ethnicity) remains a challenge (not just a divisional issue, it's an industry issue).

2.0
May 16, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Little above avg pay in most locations. Depending on position the benefits are above avg.

Cons

Day one HR onboarding is absolutely a mess which is a giant fail. Too big of a IT mess to clean up on a global level, 3-4 years away from having that in a better place. IT is treated like third, in my case forth class citizens of the company. Largest IT disconnection from the business I have ever seen in my multi decade IT career.

3.0
May 22, 2019

Life at Rio Tinto

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Diversified Miner with International Assignments

Cons

Constantly reorganizing. Very weak leadership. Focus on employing women and excluding qualified men. Onerous bureaucracy. Australians are treated way better than Americans-fair amount of discrimination.

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