Atomic Energy of Canada Reviews

Pros

Diversity and Smart people in the company is one of best reasons to work with AECL. People in company are very helpful and supportive to Summer/Co-op students. They promote good social activities. Security is always on number one priority for them and at the same time high security is not an obstacle for employees in daily routine. Work culture is great. Company is doing good profit and is growing rapidly. Offer periodic training to employees to up grade their knowledge, which is very important in my opinion. It has huge varieties of engineering filed jobs so it provide truly multidisciplinary work culture.

Cons

Work Locations are remote places for some people but its good for outdoor activities after work life. Hard to get hold to different departments due to security reasons.

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

Cutting Edge High Tech technology
Job Security
Excellent Benefits
Employer's well being
Learning Opportunities

Cons

Unhealthy politics
Bad management or no management
Diminshing Job Security
Lack of clarity at all levels
No Career Growth or retraining opportunities
Awful locatiion
Projects never Able to meet deadlines
Too much beaureucracy

Advice to Senior Management

I would suggest that we get efficient, in touch with reality and modernized management that can turn the company around before sinking the ship

Pros

crown corporation for now- good benefits

Cons

lots of people have been working for the company for many years; they don't like changes; they even get fussy when they are told that some processes need to change.

Advice to Senior Management

stop hiring on contract the same people who just retired. it seems to be a good business.
How many VPs are enough?
HR lets down people big time

Pros

Pay is decent, opportunities for quick advancement are good, benefits are good, and the pension is excellent. The work can be stimulating and people are generally willing to work with you and allow you to learn from them.

Cons

Very difficult to get anything completed especially if it involves decision making. Very little guidance in terms of making decisions. To many layers of management. Older employees can be lazy. Half-ass business improvement initiatives.

Advice to Senior Management

Cut out the middle management and make yourself visible

Pros

Pay, Benefits, exciting company, worldwide customer base

Cons

government controlled, professional unions inhibit rapid advancement

Advice to Senior Management

weed out the incompetent managers

Pros

Great benefits package, flexible hours, minimum 3 weeks of vacation, relaxed atmosphere, govermant job and benefits associated with it. Fairly safe when it comes to layoffs. Unionized environment

Cons

poor emnagemant, probems associated with nuclear industry: lots of paper shuffling. questions about future of the company. unionized environment so there are lots of people that have been here for long period of time. if you have to work with then it can be pain sometimes, on teh otehr hand there is lots of experience associated with them

Advice to Senior Management

be more straight forward, simplify processes, there is lots of complicated stuff. sometimes it si hard to figureout who is in charge on the lower level