Fantastic senior leadership, but there are vastly different cultures within sub-teams. - Recensione dipendente - Devops Engineer presso Aker Systems

2,0
14 set 2023
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

If you're looking for an opportunity to go up to that next level Aker Systems might be a great place for you to settle in, learn and grow. Upon getting security clearance you'll also have opportunities to work on critical services that benefit the UK. I believe the quality of leadership at the top of the organization is great, they are genuinely invested in the success of the company and sincere when it comes to ensuring staff satisfaction. Aker has a vision for itself which will likely see it grow substantially in the near future. The company is ambitious and the majority of colleagues here are very experienced, which helps when solving DevOps problems & blockers on a daily basis. Working from home full-time, as the company does not have offices, is a plus too - for me, it means more time with the kids when they come home from nursery. Decent pay/day rates too £££.

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Given it's a relatively small and young company delivering high-profile work, the composition of teams will mostly be contractors who generally don't want to share information/skills that might put them out of a job (which is understandable). Sadly, I have also witnessed some appalling standards of leadership from certain team leads and aspects of culture from them that would be considered "toxic". It's a lottery when it comes to what team you're put into after joining - the majority of the team leads seem okay though - but there are bad apples. HR will always put the interests of the company ahead of genuine staff concerns - so you have been warned. My top tip for working at Aker is, if you start to see or feel a negative change towards you from your line manager, line up those interviews for your next role and have a plan for your possible exit because things can get ugly here pretty quickly once they decide they are going to push you out. I've seen maybe fifteen people get eased out. The "family" ethos the company refers to does not reflect objective reality and they would benefit from dropping repeated usage of the phrase. You won't be working on cutting-edge tech - some aspects of the DevOps work are dated or would benefit from a rethink.

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Risposta di Aker Systems
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Thank you for taking the time to leave us some feedback, we are very sorry to hear you weren’t happy with your experience at Aker and we value your input on how we can improve in the future. We have grown rapidly over the past 12 months and more than 80% of our people are employees. With this growth, we also invested heavily in growing and developing our management team. We understand the importance of clear and transparent communication within our organisation at all levels of the business. With our monthly virtual companywide meetings, twice annual in-person all hands, and a variety of social and wellbeing events, we strive to foster transparency, two-way communication and continue a strongly collaborative, positive culture. Our HR team actively works to ensure all of our employees are treated fairly, given clear guidance and communication, and have every opportunity to provide feedback and get the support they need to be successful. We invest a lot in our employees here at Aker by offering them access to an annual training allowance, a new hire remote set up allowance and an annual wellbeing allowance amongst other benefits. Clients contact Aker to help with enterprise data modernisation and we’re all working our roles towards a greater vision, one that helps the world become a more safe, secure place, and where we can help our clients do the heavy lifting to help them succeed. We recognise that we need to give people wider experience beyond their individual project so that they can appreciate the breadth of work and technology at Aker and that is something we’re actively working on. If you would like to share more about your experience and how you feel we can improve, please contact HR@akersystems.com.

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5,0
23 gen 2026
Consiglia
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