Rio Tinto reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(2,427 total reviews)

Simon Trott

62% 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 Energia, mineração, utilitários industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Jul 28, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay and benefits opportunities for technical growth and challenges.

Cons

No career path, no one cares about the employees and there is no team work. Leadship is full of inexperienced people with many years of experience and get by on their relationships and good communication skills. Only the selected few get promoted and jobs are given to others without being posted internally which leads to the wrong person for the job. If you want to stay in your position forever then Rio Tinto is for you. Forget being a woman or visible minority since chances for your success will be cut by 99%. I am the most experienced person on my team and speak over five languages yet people with limited experience in my domain keep getting moved into my group and with no experience in my domain. Nepotism and making the right friends is the succession plan at Rio Tinto.

1.0
Apr 13, 2014

Stay away

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits and a great location.

Cons

Everyone is in panic mode and jocking for position. They will stab you in the back to get ahead of you. Everyone is afraid of the future the global team is going to make.

1.0
Dec 14, 2025
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Pay is 10% more than other companies (trust me, I've been to 5 interviews for a similar position) - Opportunity to travel to Chicago or Singapore if there is a project is always nice - Lunch in the cafeteria is subsidized - People are pretty cool in Commerck Services, Sales and Marketing and Logistics - Benefits are stock options are nice!

Cons

- 4 days a week in the office is mandatory (very strict policy) - People in management positions dont really care about their team - ZERO career path - Very bureaucratic and the red tape can be cumbersome - Evening calls with other businesses unit - If you don't network with the right people and dont get visibility within middle/upper management, you will NEVER get promoted. - Most of the people I talk to are either going in burn out, want to go on burn out, want to leave the company or are waiting for a package to get laid off - People feel stuck, overlooked, or dependent on networking instead of merit

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