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Year in Industry Placement - Anonymous employee Atkins Employee Review

4.0
Oct 11, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There was a lot of support and a fantastic company culture/office environment. Got the chance to work on multiple different projects and develop both technical and non - technical skills. A lot of very interesting projects, both short and technically demanding, in comparison to a lot of the other big engineering consultancies. Fantastic at ensuring you push towards becoming chartered.

Cons

I think that the salary and career progression after becoming chartered is not great. Also it is not as easy to switch divisions as you would have thought.

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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
Oct 8, 2023
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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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