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Lost Cause... - Architect Atkins Employee Review

1.0
Apr 6, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

-Comprehensive health insurance coverage. -That's it, basically.

Cons

-Favours managers who are more often than not technically out-of-depths to manage the professional staff and complex projects, leading to disastrous project deliveries and dismal morale. -And as a direct consequence, struggle to win well-remunerated projects and are stuck with leftovers thrown away by their competitors. -Which then leads to a vicious cycle of project leaders trying to hide the financial state of their projects from senior management. Senior project staff spend much of their business hours coming up with inventive ways to complete their weekly time sheets, than on solving engineering and design challenges. -The numerous drastic redundancies made to entire departments of the Asian offices are a direct reflection of the systemic problems aforementioned.

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Cons

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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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