Pros
As one of the largest companies in Brazil it provides you with a great networking opportunity in many diferent areas. The benefits are excepcional for a brazilian company. Higher up the ladder salaries are high with big bonus. Many international opportunities. Corporate base is in Rio de Janeiro, with other lesser sites in Belo Horizonte and São Paulo. Most of the leadership in the company are very qualified and bring excelent opportunies to learn from them and great networking. Since the company is growing at a very high pace, new projects are always showing up and bring new challenges constantly. In most cases the company has a good work - life balance and living in Rio de Janeiro brings alot of life quality.
Cons
Growing inside the company is hard and very political. Outsiders hired have more visibility and have a higher tendency of promotions and recognition. Some cases of very bad work life balance with lots of extra hours, which normally you dont get paid. Operational sites are far away and very isolated. Too many hired third party companies with high turnover makes it hard to run some projects. Vale is a very big company and spread all over Brazil and the world brings alot of cultural and social conflicts. If your not high up in the senior level, pay is not so good, and its a hard career to grow in.