Pros
- Starting salaries are above average. - Health benefit and insurance program is very generous. - Friendly colleagues and good spirits despite bad business culture.
Cons
- Management is unsupportive, very subjective, to name a few. - Business model and culture is sub-par for an international company. - Employer not focused on employee well-being, therefore no motivation to energize its employees. - Office-wide salary increases and bonuses have been avoided since my hire. A mediocre increase received near the end of my employment. - No appreciation or acknowledgement toward hard work and good intentions. - Is only concerned about the bottom line. - Performance reviews are a very stressful process for all admin staff and more - never a positive outcome. - Blame culture very prominent. Detail: I have worked at Amec Foster Wheeler (now WOOD) full-time for nearly 3 years as an admin staff (i won't specify the job title, sorry). Before I begin, this review is aimed at cautioning any potential ADMIN candidate. For engineers, the issues mentioned here won't apply to them, however, there is a high turnover rate, as junior engineers get lots of experience while being overworked on the field and then leave, while seniors use Amec as a cushion to get to better positions elsewhere. Amec's obsessive focus on the bottom line has created a toxic atmosphere for everyone, harboring mismanagement, shallowness, stress, deception and frustration. Engineers don't stay long because they realize the lack of concern and support from upper management, so it's purely a business transaction type of relationship (get paid really good from the getgo and get burned from too much work). Amec's theme has been to downsize everything - even the coffee expense was a concern! All this to say, that this is no place to invest oneself for the long run, cause no one cares. Unfortunately, I cannot share the very important personal detail due to GlassDoor's restrictions, but the idea is that upper management is run by "old dogs" that simply do not care about their employees, while the local management is all buddy-buddy within each other, draining the resources of the office, creating a hostile environment toward the staff, and being irresponsible in their crucial roles. Everyone in management needs to be fired and restructuring is due in order to hope for a better corporate future - but that won't happen because of the level of corruption in this office. Hence why a lot of people are quitting (including myself). The BIG CEO's (yes, multiple over the course of 3 years) seem like they have nothing better to do than to blog big abstract articles daily... pathetic.