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    Amey Reviews

    Updated 12 November 2018
    216 reviews

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    Andy Milner
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    • "Extremely limited career progression" (in 8 reviews)

    • "No annual pay rises, some office politics" (in 8 reviews)

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    1. "Good company, cares for employees and clients"

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      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Amey full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Good, flexible working hours
      Interesting diverse workload
      Employee Benefits (good pay, private insurance etc)
      Holidays can be booked at relatively short notice

      Cons

      Lots of admin and paperwork (but comes with the line of work)
      Bit stingey with expenses
      Clients are annoyed at us and contractors in general most of the time which makes it a bit more difficult

      Advice to Management

      Keep maintaining your high standards
      Decentralise some services/HR.. some are hard to get hold of/sort out

    2. "Good company to work for"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Amey full-time

      Pros

      Career progression
      Great teams to work with

      Cons

      Not many, the company tries hard to make it a good place to work

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    3. "wages"

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      Current Employee - Catering Assistant in Renfrew, Scotland
      Current Employee - Catering Assistant in Renfrew, Scotland
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Amey part-time (More than 8 years)

      Pros

      people I work with are good

      Cons

      low wages, bad management, worked like slaves sometimes

      Advice to Management

      be grateful for the staff who cover when people are off. Stop telling lies to them. Pay a decent wage the same as the council.

    4. "Good"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Amey full-time

      Pros

      Good career progression and money goes up

      Cons

      Boring at times not much to do

    5. "Good employer"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Amey full-time

      Pros

      Good company, great people. Improving every day

      Cons

      Still overly hierarchical management structure

    6. "Company review - Amey"

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      Current Employee - Assistant Civil Engineer in Birmingham, England
      Current Employee - Assistant Civil Engineer in Birmingham, England
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at Amey (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      You have lot of support from colleagues

      Cons

      It takes too much time to promote

    7. "So much potential"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Graduate
      Current Employee - Graduate
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Amey full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      - Gain a qualification whilst on the programme
      - Connections to higher ups

      Cons

      It's difficult when you are a graduate in a company that has a graduate scheme, but doesn't. I'll explain what that means, I am here as a graduate on this scheme but there is no structure what so ever, I feel like a spare part. I struggle to find ways to gain the skills and the knowledge I need to be able to get to where I need to be.
      Discussing with other graduates, this is the consensus amongst all of us. No structure, no real way to develop and there is a high likelihood that you will be stuck with administrative work for majority of your time.

      You have to be strong willed for a scheme like this, if you do not make yourself heard you will end up doing nothing what so ever.

      They now stick you with a qualification which yes is a good thing but this is what you need to consider, the course length plus the two years you are then "indebted" to the company for. You are obliged to stay with the company for another 2 years after the course end or face paying back the course fees. This although makes sense, doesn't when you feel like you are stuck in a dead end.

      Advice to Management

      Create a better programme structure, unfortunately too many of your graduates feel like me or worse. This scheme could be amazing if you had set goals, these could be generic goals that are tailored per contract but all the same, make us feel wanted, like we have a real place in this company. The morale amongst every single one of the graduates is not high at all.

    8. "n/a"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      Pros

      good location in cnetral london
      reputation
      learning environment

      Cons

      average pay - not worth
      long hours

    9. "Bridge Engineer"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Amey full-time

      Pros

      There is good quality of work

      Cons

      Not a lot of variety of work

    10. "Amey Northampton Schools/"

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      Current Employee - Grounds Maintenance in Northampton, England
      Current Employee - Grounds Maintenance in Northampton, England
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Amey full-time (More than 8 years)

      Pros

      New Management. We has a team have put over 60 years service to grounds services around the schools in Northampton and Amey. Two weeks ago we were called in to the office and told we were going to be tupeed over to a new company. We asked why they could not give a reason we have had no back up by management and very little support by HR, Its a joke after all the hard work we have put in then to be dumped by Amey in this way. We all feel very let down by Amey we all joined Amey because we all wanted to work for then and not another firm, They have not tried to offer us other jobs withing Amey Not even the Ceo is commented on this matter what a let down.

      Cons

      We loved out jobs and working for Amey and The Benefits.

      Advice to Management

      You Really need to start looking after your staff before its too late without the workers you lot dont have a job.

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