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Senior Engineer - Senior Engineer Atkins Employee Review

2.0
Nov 15, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

If you are in the right office and sector, it can be a good time to be at Atkins. If you aren't, you will stay on a downward slide. There have been lots of defections from the PBS&J days, and they haven't been replaced.

Cons

Many technical people have to find work for themselves because the "business unit" people either don't do it or only do it for the discipline they are part of. The business model restricts technical people from doing business development. It doesn't work. Atkins keeps adding business unit mouths to feed and isn't addressing the technical deficiencies or providing the support they need. They have little/no interest in supporting career or professional development.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Plenty of friendly coworkers; Can gain a decent amount of experience Decent benefits, especially medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Cons

Working from home can be slow and finicky due to servers being scrambled across the country which is discouraging for hybrid and fully remote workers. Not a lot of communication between employees, especially since there is not a lot of work so you would have to keep pressing coworkers for more work and direction. Work/Life Balance is hard to maintain since PTO, Sick leave and vacation are merged and I have to come in early. If given work, you can probably have enough to do in order to fill in timesheets, but there are plenty of times when you might not have enough work and you would have to grasp at straws just to make it to 8 hours of work each day. My role feels more like I'm working as a GIS Technician instead of an Analyst given the lack of clarity in the job description. There is no true technical training program. You would just have to search online for anything you don't know how to do.

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