Atkins reviews

Their marketing operation needs to become professional.

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.