Atkins Employee Reviews about "senior management"

Pros

Benefits Team outings / parties Good Training are given to freshers

Cons

Orthodox management style in Railway business... due to the fact senior management is from Govt. service background Nepotism ( special treatment to some employees who are in relation to higher management)

Pros

Nice Colleagues, Work culture and ethics, Decent Projects, decent pay compared to the workload.

Cons

Unqualified HR, Indian Senior Management - who doesn't want to take risk, Unpredictable workload, Slow career and monetary growth.

Advice to Management

Recruit Proper HR personnel for India- who at least have heard about Engineering. Cut down unnecessary and lavish expenditure in office premises.Look into the popular belief of corruption and take action.

Pros

Excellent global exposure. Wide variety of Jobs with varying technical challenges A good brand value

Cons

Poor Pay with respect to market Senior Management keeps on changing and so does the policies Red tapism involved in many HR process

Advice to Management

Letting go of excellent knowledgeable staff and getting in others at a higher cost with lesser skills? Weird!

Pros

- Variety of projects (also see cons), nice people to work with who appreciate your contribution and going the extra mile. - Some of the benefits are quite good - but often matched at the same level as other consultancies: buy/sell extra holidays, BUPA, gym membership, etc. - Not sure the recent merge with SNC-Lavalin will change anything.

Cons

- Too much red tape, senior management seems to be detached from the rest of the company. - London office amenities are terrible - often crowded, nowhere to sit. Useless hot-desk system as regulars tend to frequent the same spot every day. Heating/cooling is sub-par, we had 2 weeks without heating in one wing during the worst of the winter in 2016... - Focus on billable hours/productivity...

Advice to Management

- Pull your head out of the sand. - Change work distribution based on experience, not costs. - Listen to your staff, and stop ignoring suggestions for improvement and rebuff them with lip-service. - Some teams have time and budget for self/team-development, why not all? - Stop sending out useless 'anonym'* company surveys that will give you whatever results you want to get out of it. Talk to your people regularly...

Pros

pleasant work environment, nice office

Cons

no access to senior management, business matrix complicated

Pros

Excellent technically-skilled individuals, pleasant and harmonious work environment

Cons

Poor leadership, senior management personnel lacked basic training in commercial, business management and leadership skills

Advice to Management

Do not promote engineers to become managers on the basis of technical ability and tenure alone

Pros

Flexible working, well educated and intellectually stimulating colleagues

Cons

Senior management's fondness for reorganising / promoting / demoting staff with no clear objective or measurable outcomes has resulted in low staff morale and an appallingly high turnover. Clients have little confidence in senior management so do not place any larger (economically viable) packages of work, preferring to direct and manage...

Advice to Management

Senior management needs a good shake up and some fresh blood - stale and self satisfied.

Pros

varied work good people good culture happy place

Cons

senior management/overhead to remote from teams pay rises are poor

Advice to Management

value people over margin