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great office, poor management - Associate Atkins Employee Review

3.0
25 Nov 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Excellent teams and people in the offices. - new office location amazing (but we have to pay for it) - pay improving to senior level people are very well paid. - great graduate scheme - still a marquee company to work for and have on your CV

Cons

- High pressure on productivity and being billable, no innovation or training - project types limited to low risk, high margin - high levels of systems and process not accounted for in productivity - huge levels of overhead and management who are not visible - unpaid overtime is not only expected but working contractual hours will damage your progress here. - empty words from senior management - poor handling of covid. - staff treated as a number - poor middle management pay where hours of work generally reach high numbers each week without any thanks

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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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