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It works for me... - Marketing Communications Manager Atkins Employee Review

4.0
Aug 6, 2014
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Pros

I get a lot of freedom in my role but that's because of my line manager who employs people who work on their own initiative. I'm not sure that this is normal though, although the company does try to foster a culture of innovation.

Cons

Salary is crap but this about the fifth reason in a list why people take a job. The company is myopic. Innovation is the latest buzzword but innovation is a no-brainer. An innovation drive started two years ago and the company's fortunes have been tailing off for a while. But innovation is something that organisations should be doing all the time. Knee-jerk responses are common

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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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