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3.9

79% would recommend to a friend

(2,555 total reviews)
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Philip Hoare

87% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Atkins has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,555 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Atkins employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Feb 19, 2015
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Pros

People I worked with were at the forefront of their industry. Extremely knowledgeable and welcoming. Very clever people who always happy to help Lots of projects and the work is very intense so you learn quite a bit. Office environment in Gateway was nice. IT was top notch. The latest versions of everything and great back-up helpline. Line manager despite being totally overworked always helped where possible.

Cons

-Personal growth was dreadful. I waited seven months for a discussion over my career aspirations and got 2 days training in 10 months. I wanted to become chartered but if your not a grad it is totally unclear who to go too. -The work-life balance is shockingly bad. I worked over 80% of my weekends whilst there (unpaid) and those who have been there a while are absolute workaholics. I have never seen a group of people who work so hard. -The holidays are not as great as they seem. Yes you get a few more days a year but then again you work 2.5-3 hours longer which effectively mean you pay for your own holidays. -Pay for having 3 years experience was a couple of grand higher than a graduate which seems odd. Since Atkins is based in Epsom wages are relatively low as not technically in London but Surrey is just as expensive. My current organisation gave me the equivalent of a 50% pay rise per hour. -Never got out of the office after first week. Stuck to my desk rigidly.

1.0
Oct 27, 2014

Poor Management

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Pros

Work life balance some good people are there to always support you.

Cons

cheat with employ in terms of salary no matter how skilled you are good work will go to a person from South India poor management HR people are Just B com passed and have zero technical knowledge even don't know the value of a degree Laid Off half of the staff when work was less.

1.0
Jul 17, 2014
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Pros

Friendly office, convenient for the Town Centre and rail commute.

Cons

Not really a design office. Competence of qualified Engineers questionable. Small projects and uninspiring work which is very repetitive. Can be left stuck doing the same thing with very little variety. Corporate in the extreme. No real focus from management on what the company is supposed to be doing engineering wise. More concerned about coming up with new strategies and hitting targets and billing clients, rather than providing engineering services that clients actually need. Hire and fire mentality. IT systems are slow and archaic. Lots of unproductive time gets billed to the client. Middle management ineffective and live in a bubble and are not very aware. Higher management much the same but worse. In fact, they are not even visible but hide away and only appear when they announce another new strategy, as the last one didn't work, so they need to feel like they are doing something, usually a last minute reactionary effort at the expense of staff...ie: increasing working hours to reduce the selling price to clients in the hope it will win work and profit margins can increase. Too late you won't win work because nobody wants to give it to you.

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