Orica reviews

4.0

84% would recommend to a friend

(481 total reviews)
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Sanjeev Ghandi

93% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Orica has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 481 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Orica employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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481 reviews
3.0
Oct 7, 2016

Manager

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Pros

Very challenging role with good exposure globally. Learned a lot while i worked there. Great team and lots of exciting projects and opportunities. Had a great manager who constantly look for the interest of those who worked with him. He was really great.

Cons

Last CEO almost destroyed the place after he promised no layoffs on his first day only to change his mind and embark on a faceless cost cutting exercise after the mining boom imploded. This was inevitable, but engaging the staff better and not demoting their job positions would have helped. How about also admiting you got it wrong, after all you said no layoffs. Lots of politics, role demotion and favouritism at the manufacturing arm led to mass exodus of great people. It was really a shame to see my manager leave.

1.0
Sep 25, 2016

at the bottom of the cycle

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Those who joined during the boom time say a lot of good things about the company, like $, training, flexibility and so on ...

Cons

Those who joined at the bottom of the mining super cycle are struggling to find job security ...

3.0
Aug 29, 2016

Great company has lost its way

Anonymous employee
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Pros

International company. Excellent products. Outstanding employees and middle management

Cons

Somewhat aimless. The board & CEO have hired a lot of mining people who do not know how to run a commercial business. Extractive mining businesses are different to businesses that sell things to customers. Hopefully they will engage with people who can sell and run businesses in the future and return to a position of strength. It is difficult however as he company made a lot of bad acquisitions in the mining boom which it has never recovered from.

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