ATCO Reviews

Pros

great people team culture management

Cons

nothing I can think of really

Pros

Great employees Attractive benefits and competitive compensation

Cons

Too often top down management of day to day operations.

Pros

Benefits, not much other pros exist

Cons

Refusal to pay to market, refusal to change, everyone overworked and underpaid.

Pros

Good people to work with, lots of opportunity to prove yourself

Cons

It feels like ATCO is a little unsure of itself right now and how to continue to be successful.

Pros

None that I can think of

Cons

I worked at ATCO for over 6 years, very poor culture and morale over the past couple years and getting worse, CEO is a loon, runs around all blinged out with a couple runt dogs, 2nd generation family leadership running the company slowly into the ground, senior leadership are older generation who have been with the company for 25+ years and never worked anywhere else so stick around because they can't find anything else...

Advice to Management

Advice to middle management, get rid of senior leadership old cronies of family ownership and ancient board members. Bring the company into the 21st century.

Pros

- lots of great people working there - most management was quite good, despite the downfall in training processes - salary levels are good -

Cons

My time at ATCO was marred by the fact that the woman who hired me was leaving on vacation for one month two days after I started. I suspect she needed someone there because she was going on vacation. There was minimal training provided for using the database which was a big part of the job.

Advice to Management

Develop an excellent training program and provide workers with an individual who is there to help guide you on your way. It was quite brutal really. I declined another job offer I had on the same day because this was a permanent role - bad decision on my part.

Pros

Fundamentally good people, good hours and benefits. No shortage of work.

Cons

Highest levels of management are unhealthily disconnected from the "working class" of the company causing issues such as lack of trust, confusion and lack of direction. Company promotes an air of balance and good intentions with messaging toward "ATCO Heart and Mind", innovation, employee engagement, etc. At the same time real life decisions are made that contradict the message, like shared office spaces, constant reorganization,...

Advice to Management

Walk the talk. What executive management promotes via the company intranet is often not what is reflected by the decisions that are made.

Pros

Good young work force, 37.5 hour weeks

Cons

Bad management. Trying to push change from the bottom up, but no one has any real power but management to affect that change. Too much red tape, most employees do not know the basics of their work.