Rio Tinto reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(2,427 total reviews)

Simon Trott

61% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Rio Tinto has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,427 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
3.0
Sep 13, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Lot of opportunity to improve Good salary, enough benefit

Cons

Very bureaucratic, long process Put forward tools over process Different treatment based on origin and experience, not necessarily capabilities

3.0
Jun 18, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting incentives if you can get a full time perm position- safety oriented, many opportunities internally.

Cons

Rio Tinto is known to lay off full-time perms as easily as contractors, its doesn't matter its boom or bust. Also prefers to deal with contractors than full-time perms for cost effectiveness Also- recruitment services for Canada to be outsourced, just like they do with people and organizational services in Australia. Rio Tinto does not invest in communities like the small mines they acquire used to before being taken over. This is devastating for local populations.

4.0
Jul 19, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Managers respect workers, clean nice organised place to work pay is not the best nor is it the worst but is very comfortable. Safety is excellent. Can develop good leadership skills especially on some sites The Brand name is prestegious.

Cons

Its so stable it is frsutrating to be an electrical engineer. Everything is faultless but I almost fall asleep daily at work. Inovative ideas are not respected and are stamped out and talented people usually board to death. If the following statement agrees with you: "I want to achieve the impossible, and be driven to achieve using skills and inovation to my limits" then RIO may be too repressive as tall poppies are cut down very fast. I get excellent training excellent pay but I am underchallenged so badley I really want to leave . It scares me that one day i will become fat and lazy due to my work environment.

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