Great employees at Atkins, but Senior Management and Directors are utterly useless and look after ONLY THEMSLEVES
Pros
Atkins is great at recruiting (though poor at retention), so you are surrounded by highly skilled co-workers with great CV’s. Atkins wins great work and you get to work on some once in a lifetime projects, however this is not due to the Senior Management or Directors, this is due to the hard work put in by middle to lower management as well as its employees.
Cons
Atkins does not look after its employees in anyway. Only very Senior Management and Directors get looked after, for not ever really doing much. The people at this level are mostly blaggers and do not know their left had from their right hand. They also keep reorganising the company and the structure for no real visible benefits. Atkins only care about the profit margins it has promised to its stockholders and have no loyalty to its staff, especially since the new CEO joined – Uwe Krueger. I know of not one staff member in the London Head office that has met him or heard him speak. He has not had any presentations to any of the London based staff. Obviously he deems himself way too important to talk to any of his employees.
