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Decent Firm with Growing Pain - Anonymous employee Atkins Employee Review

3.0
27 Jan 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Better than average compensation package in the industry, diversified business portfolio and decent job stability

Cons

Actual technical strength mismatches with firm size: There are 35ish big name fellow engineers making 140k not being able to do much of any work (design or manage) in our main business line - transportation projects. Shall we worry that our clients would eventually find out our strength and performance when they see our work? No worries of course if we are not selected for the work. That happens but we don't want see that happening too often.

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Pros

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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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