Atkins Associate Principal Engineer reviews

It's difficult to progress rapidly and the project managers seem to thrive. R&D is difficult to come by.

A lot of senior managers who seem more concerned to appease the board to their own benefit and promotion while the under resourced mid to senior engineers struggle to deliver and are very poorly rewarded both financially but worse with promotion or recognition. You really have to fight to demonstrate worthiness of promotion and yet doesn't come, Atkins are very good at keeping your grades low while you perform well above them. Worse for foreign engineers and non chartered ones. The Atkins environment has changed a lot for the worse since Ewe became CEO (now ousted by SNC Lavalin), feels a lot more cut throat, all about making profits for those lucky shareholders. Since then, quality of available projects has really slipped as has the general standards. Very frustrating fighting to do deliver best quality of work we can and as such consistently doing too many hours because we cant actually deliver competitively and to quality like 5+ years ago. A note about the work-life balance, depends if you are driven or not, if you happy to float along and develop slowly you can achieve a very nice work-life balance but your progression will be the cost, ok if you are an associate level. Gender equality questionable in areas from what I hear.