Gerdau reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(757 total reviews)
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Gustavo Werneck da Cunha

89% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Gerdau has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 757 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Gerdau employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufatura industry (3.5 stars).

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757 reviews
2.0
Feb 23, 2014

"Buyer" Beware

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good medical benefits package; decent benefits packages and relatively decent people depending on the site and team. Leaving to go home in the evenings.

Cons

If you are looking for a supply-chain position - RUN. EXPECTED to work from home and weekends after 10 hour days at work. Too policy-laden - reduces quality work, productivity and effectiveness. Egotistical, non-engaged management more concerned with "initiatives" and "the numbers" than processes that negatively impact the numbers or goals of initiative. Buyers responsible for AP, data master, vendor master, projects, HR initiatives and everything in between - little time left for true procurement activities like achieving savings, negotiating and expediting. Buyers are glorified baby sitters and task masters, way too much non-value added administration and correspondence-based activities. One buyer had nervous breakdown...I failed to mention that you are grossly underpaid for the time and effort.

3.0
Jan 29, 2014

Lost sight of core business

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Focus on safety and employee feedback, striving to always do better and improve.

Cons

Stretch employees way too thin, to many priorities, not enough resources to support the load. Promotions and career development reserved for a certain group

2.0
Jan 23, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good bonus, Vacation is decent, they do have some nice benefits and you have the opportunity to meet some very hard workers and make some great friends.

Cons

The Gerdau Petersburg Virginia Plant care nothing of their employees, most managers are uneducated and very narrow minded. They have the belief, do as I say not as I do. Their Human Resource department is more like In Human Resource, they do not fight for the employees they work with the managers, who they socialize with. They do not listen to the production employees. All they want to do is look good to the community by signing up for all these community activities while treating their employees like crap. There has been many occasions of my years working here that I have seen of them actually violating employees rights.

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