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Apprentice - Apprentice Atkins Employee Review

3.0
7 Jul 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Global company. Well respected in its industry. Does a lot of Projects. Has good benefits. Pays fairly well. Gives you the opportunities to go on courses and gain industry qualifications.

Cons

Bad management. Luck of the draw if you'll be looked after. Bad on some projects with change control. Since joining the company all I have done is Document Control. This is not my job and I haven't had the opportunities to prevent this. When I have brought this up at my PDR etc.. it took up to 3 months to make any changes and they were never significant and always relapsed back into a role that I ought not to be doing. I am very disappointed with my experience. Don't seem to have a place for me. Seems like the hired me for the sake of having an apprentice.. possibly they get money from the government.. or to fill me in a low positions in the company that people try and move up from

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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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