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Great people make the conpany - Anonymous employee Atkins Employee Review

3.0
Aug 23, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Well established organisation, have some specific good focus in the industry and a very good graduate development and leadership programme, too often get out of their depth in the scale of the projects, especially in the Middle East.

Cons

Too big to have one vision and yet too small to properly complete with others in their sector, cannot be niche with their scale. Do not seem to have really cracked the markets outside of the UK and perhaps the Middle East, well established does not mean that the vision is clear. Still a massive schism between Atkins and F&G. The senior team has flashes of brilliance, but an awareness of the inner workings of Atkins is much more useful than an awareness of the external market meaning that it is hard to see where Atkins fits any more

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Pros

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

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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