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Absolutely atrocious, poisonous and deceitful - Anonymous employee Atkins Employee Review

1.0
Oct 14, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The team I worked in was good, people shared skills and knowledge- of the kind a what a young professional wants and hopes from such a company. But that is where it all ENDS! The only other questionably positive from my period there is a few lessons from what is also known as the university of life

Cons

Disfunctional teams, eternal infighting, incompetent people leading teams-principal engineers/leads who have no clue about the subject matter yet become/proclaim themselves as experts and subsequently pass the buck onto people lower down in the hierarchy resulting in loss of valuable clients- be ashamed of yourselves for asking for and getting bonuses after all this- you would have been fired in any other functional organisation. Senseless focus on absurd indices like productivity that should be used within a context and not just as a number, no willingness for risk. The list can go on but I think this is enough

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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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