Hecla Mining Reviews

3.3

43% would recommend to a friend

(52 total reviews)
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Phillips S. Baker Jr.

53% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Hecla Mining has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 52 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hecla Mining employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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52 reviews
1.0
Jun 2, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Short term: friends, somewhat benefits though the market in mining is starting to exceed what once used to be this company's big benefit

Cons

Cesspool of nepotism (borderline cronyism) with coward coworkers living in a culture of fear that have no options but to endure the abuse of sociopathic insecure middle management. Anyone under tech services is not allowed to attend SME, nor get any career development opportunities. This is a dead end place for dead end careers, the last refuge of the industry dropouts/failures. Small men/women with no leadership ability creating their own little kingdoms where new employees are the serfs. All, no exaggeration here, new people quit for actual opportunities or are fired to nonsense reasons because insecure management can't handle a growing career. Just don't, you deserve better.

1.0
Nov 30, 2022

Abusive

Recommend
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Pros

The food is decent and nice scenery

Cons

Recently the maintenance department at Keno hill site lied and bullied their way to fire the best maintenance supervisor there was. Things have gone down hill since then and mechanical repairs have went down hill even though the mechanics seem like they're trying. We recently were brought in to the office where management screamed at us and called us idiots and swore at us for 20 minutes because they suspected someone was smoking pot on site. Most unprofessional thing ive ever witnessed. You will never feel appreciated here.

1.0
Aug 30, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits and health insurance are on par with other companies.

Cons

Management is utterly insecure looking to be seen by the C suites. They will step on their subordinates for any attention. Good employees are quickly fired for ridiculous reasons, basically made their inept boss feel insecure. Kinda sociopath culture here. Been in the industry for nearly three decades and this is the most depraved work environment I've come across. If you have innovation, creativity, ambition, self-wroth, or talent then stay far away from this place. They promote and hire the most psychopathic desperate management. You are better than this company.

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