The worst place I have ever worked - Anonymous employee Atwell Employee Review

1.0
Apr 11, 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pay is good… sort of. You might make two regular salaries of money, but you will have to work the hours of two jobs. Traditional departments seem ok - survey or engineering. As they’ve grown other departments, they’ve put people in leadership who have no idea what they’re doing or how to interact with human beings. It’s not cute.

Cons

Your whole life is chargeability, for you, your team, what the client is billed. It seems that every single project is out of budget. Feels like it has to be the result of intentional underbidding of projects. -everything you do and bill will be questioned, from the day of your hire until you leave -they will work you into an early grave and celebrate people who work around the clock. Emails, phone calls and teams messages at all hours, including when you’re on PTO -people taking PTO and apologizing for being unavailable at certain times … on their PTO - I don’t think my manager knew a single personal detail about me and had no desire to learn about it. I was a money making meat sack that could easily be replaced -everyone in my department who’d been there more than 1-2 years will stab you in the back if it advances them. Everyone who doesn’t like that leaves within 18 months. -because of the 40% turnover in my department last year, I was constantly training everyone around me, including people in positions I’d never held, and people above my pay grade -you are on the phone all day. All. Day. They’ve decided meetings are chargeable and chargeability is king. This means you can’t do your real, actual work until your 8-10 hours a day of meetings are over - people are just allowed to talk to each other… however. I’ve never encountered a less collegial group of human beings.

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Atwell Response
3y
This is a tough review to read and I am not sure how to respond. We certainly have pushed a different culture than you speak of and when I read this I can't think of a more different perspective than I have of every office I have visited. I am truly sorry this was your experience and while I do look at the Time Analysis report weekly to ensure we aren't hiring too much or too little I can say we are very aware of who in the company is utilized too high and we put extra effort to make sure we are recruiting hard to fill roles to help that out. The market is crazy and hiring is very hard, but we push very hard every day to make sure we hire smart qualified people in every position. Our overall attrition rate is below 4% historically so your department is an anomaly here at Atwell. Sorry, again this was your experience.

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