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Was fantastic, all downhill - Nuclear Criticality Safety Engineer Atkins Employee Review

4.0
Sep 11, 2014
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Pros

Was a small company with very talented employees and excellent management (this is no longer the case). All employees worked under a VP directly, with little management interference. Good support during issues. Excellent HR and accounting whom kept up with every detail and always had things in line. 401k benefit is fantastic. I used to feel valued as an individual, but that has drastically changed. Support for conference attendance and training. Used to give ample raises, which has stopped.

Cons

Caliber of employees has drastically decreased. Now they hire anyone. High overhead (take home pay is less than half of charge rate) to accommodate the old and unhealthy people's health insurance. They also don't want anyone to know their charge rate (?) Management is far removed from their employees and what is going on at each job location. Not a small company anymore, but they will continue to advertise that.

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5.0
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Pros

A lot of work to be done Many opportunities to try different things

Cons

Advancement can be hard Working alongside underperformers

3.0
Oct 8, 2023
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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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