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Good work, project placement can be based on luck, but hard work generally recognised. - Assistant Mechanical Engineer Atkins Employee Review

3.0
14 Jan 2015
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Pros

The company has a good focus on personal development and choosing your own career path is largely up to you if you take the initiative and talk to the right people. Plenty of opportunities for secondments at other business (+/- a year or two) and client exposure is high on some projects. Flexible working hours and relaxed office environment. I have however noticed in a change for the worse in recent months.

Cons

You are placed in a team when starting which might focus on engineering which you are not entirely confident with. Once you're in a team, its very difficult to move. Some teams are also quite cliquey. There should be more choice in which team you are placed, or at least an explanation/summary of what each team does given to prospective employees before they join. There is a mismatch between a constant push for productivity and the effort senior management go for to actually find work for staff that are unproductive. This is more so in certain teams than in others and is also largely dependent on the line manager you are given. Salary progression is poor which is why staff retention at mid-senior grades is suffering

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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
8 Oct 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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