Tenaris reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(1,235 total reviews)
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Paolo Rocca

90% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Tenaris has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,235 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tenaris 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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2.0
Dec 26, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is decent for new college graduates. Not the best for engineers, but is competitive. Health and retirement savings benefits are good. Company matches 5% of your 401k contributions if you manage to stay with them for 3 years.

Cons

Where to begin... if you've read other reviews about this place, you've probably heard people say that it's not an "American company". What that basically means is that all of the upper and middle management are expats from Mexico, Argentina, and Italy. I didn't think much about it when I first joined, but it leads to tons of issues when you work. First of all, the language barrier is obvious. For most of them, English is a second of third language. If you are like me and grew up in American and only know how to speak English, you will have a very hard time communicating with your own boss and people you have to work with and will have an extremely difficult time getting tasks done. I don't know if it's a cultural thing, or Tenaris thing but the work-life balance is TERRIBLE. If you work long hours (I'm talking 12 hr days) you are not commended or rewarded for your hard work, but expected to. Since the beginning of the oil crisis/downturn, Tenaris has elected to let go a lot of their salaried employees. As a result, a ton of employees have to take on the amount of work of 2 or 3 people. You could only imagine the amount of stress everyone is under and how low morale. This is led to, of course, tons of people quitting and making the problem even worse. The turnover rate is the worst that I have seen at any company. The overall work environment is just very bad. Despite what Tenaris' press and social media likes to portray, the entire Bay City project has been a mess. Budgets have been cut constantly, leading to projects falling months behind schedule, adequate equipment for different machines, and high levels of stress for the few people left to work there. Meetings are often filled with people making excuses and/or passive-aggressively making comments about other departments. Instead of helping each other to fix whatever issues come up, everyone just looks for a scapegoat or somebody to blame. I know for me, I only took this job because I thought I wanted to work in Oil & Gas coming out of college and Tenaris were one of the only companies hiring during the downturn. I recommend anyone who is looking for a job to stay away and look elsewhere. Only consider them if you have nowhere else to go, but just know what you are getting yourself into.

5.0
Dec 22, 2017

NDT sea inspector

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Inspect, products out of defects and magnesium

Cons

When oil prices drop hour dropped too.

3.0
Dec 3, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive salary Global Trainee Program Rotational Programs

Cons

Bureocracy. No work/life balance. Lack of communication

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