Aker Solutions Reviews

Pros

They provide great perks that help moral. It's a laid back atmosphere. Work/life balance is excellent with various work schedules offered. Pay is above average. Most people that leave come back.

Cons

Consistency across all business units and business areas is not present. Management structure changes frequently.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't fall into layers of management.

Pros

Work life balance
Nice people to work with

Cons

No career planning
No organized activities for team building
Groups are very siloed
Constant change
Low pay and no bonus

Advice to Senior Management

Management should value employees and explain what is happening in the company. Only management experience benefits.

Pros

Good co-workers, life work balanced

Cons

company is far away from the city

Advice to Senior Management

keep on doing what's right

Pros

Good work environment. Typical above national average benefits initial monetary compensation is good but raises are typically a small percentage compared to other places I have worked.

Cons

Company need to streamline business to much red tape and constant game of blame someone else type politics run rampant.

Advice to Senior Management

Company need to streamline business to much red tape and constant game of blame someone else type politics run rampant.

Pros

Culture of the company is very strong. Many challenges ahead.

Cons

Leadership does not take responsibility (ownership)

Advice to Senior Management

Strategy need to be informed

Pros

Good place for junior / newly educated as they are taught well here. Also easier to get in with less education than many companies.

Cons

A lot of turf war has bad impact on morale, projects and execution. No customer focus. High turn-over. Company always changing. Ethics so-so. Too many cowboys.

Advice to Senior Management

The basics of the company ain't working, and reorganizing isn't going to solve it. Management needs to sort out quality at top and mid-level first, and stop turf wars.

Pros

Nature of projects , world famous chanllnging projects , opurtunity to excell in techincal feild, Good working enviroment in technical team

Cons

Always under pressure , constant delivry schedule,

Advice to Senior Management

improve more training for project management, at grass root still PMT lacks the basic understanding of project. It is the technicall competancy of Aker runs acutal show and make project success.

Pros

Develop technical knowledge of oil & gas designs/processes.

Cons

Low pay in KL office

Pros

Its a big challenge to work in aker solutions t,he company is a plain okey but a lot of improvement to be more okey.All the resources are in the company such as man and machine.

Cons

Methods of Trainings and benifits.
Methods on selection of staff should be no racial descrimination.

Advice to Senior Management

Dont neglect the asian expatriates employee on some benifits and trainings.

Pros

Long term stability, experience to work in an international comapny
Freedom to express views and opinions
work as per Aker solutions values, employees participation in making decisions.

Cons

Big international company, understanding all the cultures and dealing with all employees is a challenge, growing company, frequent restructuring, change of name and reorganising of organisation.

Advice to Senior Management

build a strong organisation, avoid frequent restructuring, lead the organisation to work toward achieving company vision, grow where demand is and employee best brains.