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great office, poor management - Associate Atkins Employee Review

3.0
Nov 25, 2022
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Pros

- Excellent teams and people in the offices. - new office location amazing (but we have to pay for it) - pay improving to senior level people are very well paid. - great graduate scheme - still a marquee company to work for and have on your CV

Cons

- High pressure on productivity and being billable, no innovation or training - project types limited to low risk, high margin - high levels of systems and process not accounted for in productivity - huge levels of overhead and management who are not visible - unpaid overtime is not only expected but working contractual hours will damage your progress here. - empty words from senior management - poor handling of covid. - staff treated as a number - poor middle management pay where hours of work generally reach high numbers each week without any thanks

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5.0
Oct 13, 2023
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Pros

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

Cons

Advancement can be hard Working alongside underperformers

2.0
Nov 17, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Job and a paycheck but in a house of cards.

Cons

Wow, be careful! Atkins North America was acquired when Atkins in London bought a notorious US engineering based in Florida, PBS&J (Post, Buckley, Shuh and Jernigan). I didn't do enough research when hired and found out too late I was working for a company that has been prosecuted multiple times for serious illegalities, and some of the executives who participated but escaped prosecution are still there! PBS&J has been indicted for bribing government officials, illegal campaign contributions, and was a private company put on the chopping blocks to sell for being so poorly managed when several of the employees embezzled millions upon millions of dollars. As recent as 2016 the company was struggling financially because of legal costs and fines to the extent the focus became finishing out existing contracts rather than procuring new ones...an indicator they do not want new business and are likely to chop off the US engineering wing and spin those employees out to another company. Do your research before accepting a job there, the good old boy network that didn't previously get caught or prosecuted in the illegalities is still working there, and they haven't changed much in being secretive about what they are doing!! Get everything in writing as they are all about the bait and switch.

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