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Amec Foster Wheeler

Now known as Wood

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Comfortable but very unemotional place to work at - Civil Engineer Amec Foster Wheeler Employee Review

3.0
12 Feb 2015
Recommend
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Pros

- Lots of employees working on one project, therefore, work is distributed among many people. - Comfortable offices to work at - The company already has given excel work templates from many projects, therefore, the templates can be used without having to create them from scratch

Cons

- Very unemotional place to work at (No recreational activities organised by management other than just work work work) - No variable bonus - The training conducted by the Graduate programme is very poor (The "On-job training" emphasized by the management subjects graduates to being bullied by people who have much more experience; The mentors are more interested in exploiting graduates for their own benefit than to really mentor them - Several departments, which have foreign Section Managers, have strong preference for hiring their own people from their own country instead of the parent country's locals. This is a serious issue as most of the time, the locals get bullied or exploited by the foreign majority. The foreign majority can also control the flow of the project, intentionally delaying the project for their own benefit ( e.g. more overtime pay) - A lot of gossiping, back-biting and unnecessary conflict between employees

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
19 Jul 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amec, though they have acquired other companies have tried, sometimes unsuccessfully, but persistently to build a new identity for the company which integrates the cultures of all the companies they have acquired. If employees buy into the vision of Amec Foster Wheeler, they can build a very successful career. Amec is not unlike many other very large engineering consultancies, with the attendant red tape and bureaucracy, but you will not escape that if you want to build your career with a company of this size. Overall a great place to work.

Cons

The IT department is Broken. Period. It is a mess, and they keep recycling old hardware that doesn't function correctly. Employees who are using substandard technology that hinders them in doing their day to day tasks may wait months before they get a new laptop and the new laptop might be not much better than the old one. New employees get recycled laptops or desktops and it is embarrassing to hire an employee and then make them wait weeks to get a computer. This one issue is a thorn in Amec's side and they will begin to lose people over it. It doesn't matter how good your corporate intentions are; if you can't even get basic technology right, your organization will suffer, and Amec FW is suffering now.

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