Pros
- The company provides excellent work/life balance. Flexible working in that you can choose your start and finish times suitable to your own needs. - Respectable amount of paid annual leave and five days of volunteer leave per year for those interested in volunteering for any charity or STEM event. - The assistant design engineering job is challenging and fulfilling. - 75% of season ticket from home to work place. - Lots of job opportunities from an engineering point of view. The company departments is generally very flexible with switching disciplines careers or departments. There have been maintenance engineers who have ended up as design or project engineers and mechanical engineers becoming signalling specialists. - Growing industry. Large and varied amount of projects like Digital Railway, Crossrail 2, electrification projects on Anglia, LNE, GW and Scotland and station enhancements. - Opens up to lots of external opportunities. - Strongly encourage safety culture. - Respectful colleagues. Diversity and inclusion encouraged. - An expensive work phone and possibly a laptop depending on role.
Cons
- Lots of politics, increasing as you get into a more senior position. - The company processes are a mess and the main cause of project delays, overspend as well as poor maintenance regimes. Too many people, interfaces, ideas and different key performance measures for different teams have led to more and more problems. - Many employees are resistant to change. - Graduate scheme could be managed better. The management team does not communicate well with its graduates, particularly when problems arise. - Departments are often trying to compete with each other for money and not collaborating effectively enough.