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4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(74 total reviews)
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Brad Lukanic, AIA

81% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

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2.0
Apr 3, 2016

Great People, but...

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Pros

It is a group of exciting and talented people working together in an open environment. I genuinely enjoy working with most of my co-workers.

Cons

But, the management structure does a horrible job of providing adequate resources and management. The company has made questionable decisions regarding business development. There is little accountability and no clear expectations for performance.

1.0
Apr 17, 2015

Project Manager

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Pros

Not sure of any worth mentioning but from a foggy distance: relatively competitive salaries, every once in a while chance of working on interesting projects and as anywhere else chance of working with interesting people.

Cons

Unbearable work loads, stifling if not terror like work atmosphere, poor recognition of efforts, management not genuine for the most part and poor chances for real personal growth. Stay away if possible!

1.0
Apr 7, 2015
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Pros

Here & there you may get to work on a cool project and there are many factors like good client, budget etc that will produce a good building to put on your resume. There were a few people I enjoy working with, but in general not a great work environment.

Cons

There is absolutely no transparency with this company, even at the smaller offices who claim to be like"family" The latter is often used to try to get people to just give a little more of their unpaid overtime, because 60+ hours/week is considered lazy. The idea of work-life balance is non existent with this company and you see eyerolls if you dare to leave at a reasonable time. After the bad feedback received from the employee satisfaction survey last year regarding long hours, exhaustion and low pay the management responded by saying that we should all do it because we are passionate, our profession is not about money. Yes, we know we are not doctors, but if the "Jive" bloggers and other non-reimbursable positions were managed better, maybe there would be more to spread around. Management keeps saying that we need to work smarter, not harder, yet they don't seem to realize that they are making us work harder and not smarter because they can't seem to agree on what color the sky is. A lot of the waste and misorganization comes from the big egos that will do and say anything to make themselves look good and not take responsibility for mismanagement of a pretty good fee, leaving absolutely no money for CA. The latter causing them to say you need to complete your tasks on overtime because that doesn't hurt the project!!!! Such a backwards culture!

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