Avantages
Very talented team. Access to a lot of valuable knowledge and experience. Diverse and varied workload with lots of learning opportunities. Directors are very approachable and supportive. Annual company retreat to the Crieff Hydro. Salary was very competitive.
Inconvénients
Some projects are bid quite low to win the work, so time available to work on them is restricted. Company tends to stick to a traditional office approach - no flexible working or ability to work from home (pre-lockdown), and some minor office politics/bureaucracy. Edinburgh office is a renaissance town house conversion, so staff are segregated into different rooms, which feels quite insular within individual teams. With regards to being/becoming chartered, the company has a slight bias towards the IStructE, with no training agreement(s) for either the IStructE or the ICE.