AREVA Reviews

Pros

Challenging, good benefits, constant work, GREAT PEOPLE

Cons

poor raises for 3 years, bad communication

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate with employees in a more timely fashion when they will be affected by the decisions made by senior management. Areva has GREAT PEOPLE.. Be sure and treat them that way.

Pros

AREVA balance sheet and global footprint

Cons

French politics which translates into corporate politics

Pros

Good work benefits, 401k, health much better than other places. Decent pay. Interesting and challenging work. Lots of responsibility given right at the beginning.

Cons

Tough difficult projects to work on. Too much red tape and paperwork all the time. Very stressfull, lots of impossible deadlines to meet. Very high expectations of employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Cut down on the meetings. Cut down on all processes. Things are way too difficult sometimes to get anything done.

Pros

No 1 Nuclear Supplier in the World

Cons

Not too much access to learn.

Advice to Senior Management

provide practical access to share expertise and resource

Pros

They were interested in employee advancement. There were a wide variety of qualified individuals. The hours weren't excessive. Pay and benefits were above average.

Cons

Really, the only downside I found was that I didn't like the particular location (Aiken, SC)

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the corporate effort on sustainability issues.

Pros

Overall good place to work. Opportunity for travel, interactions with European colleagues. Challenging work.

Cons

People are slow to make decisions. Company is the result of many acquisitions trying to come together in a common way. Still trying to figure out what kind of company it wants to be.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to simplify organization/tools/processes.

Pros

AREVA treats their employees like family. They take care of us and make us feel like we're wanted. While other companies are cutting raises and bonuses, AREVA provides that and other extras such as a $50 grocery gift card at Thanksgiving. It's the little things that count. New hires also get 3 weeks of vacation to begin with.

Cons

Can't go into a negative sick time balance, which really hurts when you get sick early in the year. The alternative is to take vacation.

Advice to Senior Management

AREVA is great! I don't have many complaints, but you guys seem to take notice and solve problems within the company.

Pros

There are great amounts of growth in this industry. It is great to be in a field where I know going to work eveyr day I will continue to have a job. Job security is important especially in this economy where all of my friends are getting laid off in many fields in different industries. Areva is growing in every way. It is great to get your foot in the door and get ahead of the hiring rush.

They compensate you very fair. I earn more than my peers in other fields.

If you like travel, the job is a definite plus too.

Cons

I work very long hours for weeks on end. Many weeks are more than 60 hours. You need to be well disciplined to put in this much work and keep your personal life in order.

Working this much and travelling so much makes a marriage and family difficult. Many people divorce because of the stress and high workload. If you are family oriented it may be best to stay away from this line of work as you will probably burn out.

Benefits are so so in my opinion. I think they could be better. The pay is good, but benefits are very important too.

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce the workload per person