Good for Grads, stay for 1-2 years then get poached. Elsewise avoid.
Pros
- You can work with large engineering companies in the UK and build up a professional network. Use this to build contacts in said large engineering companies and find avenues to employment (this is ultimately how you will progress your career, see cons regarding progression). - Other employees are generally very knowledgable and friendly. Use them as a font of knowledge to build from your studies and grow as an engineer. - You do get expenses paid, which helps to top up the (low) salary. - You can work from home, with flexible working.
Cons
- You are working in a body shop, not a consultancy. You will work the same project for months if no years at a time with resistance if you want to move to other industries/company accounts. - Pay and pay progression is awful. It does not matter if you are meeting and beating your targets and the company overall is performing well, you are not going to progress in pay. - Progression is non-existant for technical staff. There are schemes and framwork for project management and business management, but for the actual engineers, there is very little to no framework for engineers to progress through and build their skills and expertise. - Chartership is not funded or particular desired by management. As an engineering company operating in the UK, this should be a focus to progress and level up your engineers, but is instead handled with a "If you want to do it, then that is cool, but we will not help you with it" attitude. - You are still mandated to go into the office for 1-2 days per week.
