Freeport-McMoRan reviews

3.9

80% would recommend to a friend

(1,067 total reviews)
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Kathleen L. Quirk

71% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Freeport-McMoRan has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,067 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Freeport-McMoRan employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.8 stars).

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1K reviews
5.0
Jan 7, 2026

Good Mining Company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Learning experience with mechanical equipment, project management and construction

Cons

Locations are far from bug cities

2.0
Dec 11, 2025

Slow Growth & Poor Leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

System scale and complexity: Large, real industrial assets. PLC/DCS, APC, historians, PI AF, enterprise data pipelines. Problems are non-trivial and resume-worthy. Global footprint: Visibility across multiple sites and regions if you push for it. Good for systems thinking

Cons

Culture inconsistency: Experience varies wildly by site and manager. No uniform engineering standard enforcement. Process heaviness: Slow approvals, legacy bureaucracy, risk-averse change management. Friction for fast movers. Resource constraints: Chronic understaffing. Engineers absorb ops support, firefighting, and on-call load. Innovation drag: Advanced ideas require excessive justification. Execution often lags intent. Recognition dilution: High performers not cleanly differentiated from average contributors. Political capital matters. Career signaling risk: Title progression and role definition can lag actual responsibility. Workload volatility: Peaks during outages, migrations, or incidents with limited buffer or compensation alignment. Central vs site tension: Corporate initiatives often clash with site realities. Engineers caught in the middle.

5.0
Dec 9, 2025

Great

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Room to grow horizontally or vertically

Cons

Fast paced environment. Might not for everyone

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