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Close, but no cigar....... - Group Engineer Atkins Employee Review

3.0
Jul 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Big organisation that has a wide portfolio of activities to attract most engineers. Good reputation, great feeling of belonging come along with flying the Atkins colors. Active social calendar at most offices. Welfare support second to none. Staff discount schemes. Cycle to work scheme (in UK). Staff-facing whistleblower policy.

Cons

Silo working can limit the effective integration of skillsets and activities - geography should be an irrelevance in the 21st century but a legacy of old skool thinking in some of the management can rule the roost. Not good for staff morale if a change in business activities leaves you high and dry. You do the math, have an escape strategy.

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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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