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Mediocre engineering consultants, nothing special. - Mechanical Engineer Atkins Employee Review

2.0
Jun 1, 2013
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Pros

The people in my local office were brilliant, but an exception to the other offices and general overall culture of the firm.

Cons

* IT systems are woeful, and its business systems & bureaucracy are bloated to the point that they actually prevent engineers from being good engineers. * Reasonably high fee's to clients paired with low / mediocre quality of work output, I'm sure makes some staff feel ashamed of being a part of the company. * Get the feeling that the internal PR and promoted corporate culture is basically all talk no action.

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Pros

A lot of work to be done Many opportunities to try different things

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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