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Not many positives working for Creative Design (Atkins internal design agency) - Designer Atkins Employee Review

1.0
Mar 30, 2023
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Pros

The team you work directly with will be great.

Cons

- Majority of work will be PowerPoints - Little creative work - Very corporate - Have to be 100% productive as have timesheets to book in an archaic system - Too many meetings, little time to actually get productive work done - If any family emergencies, expected to make time up due to timesheet or asked what you are going to book that time too - Everyone is overworked and overstretched, an unhappy workforce with many people leaving. Not considerate the toll this has on people's mental well-being. - Never have downtime to learn new things or train - No suggestions are listened to - Salaries are low compared to market - People are randomly promoted and most the time it is based off favoritism and not hard work - Not flexible, even when working from home you have to ask if it's okay where you work even if you're still in the UK - 40 hour week and no flexi time when rest of Atkins is incredibly flexible (8-4 instead of 9-6)

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5.0
Oct 13, 2023
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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
Recommend
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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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