Gensler reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(2,479 total reviews)
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Elizabeth Brink, Jordan Goldstein, Andy Cohen, and Diane Hoskins

79% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Gensler has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,479 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Gensler employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.6 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Jul 20, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

‘one firm firm’ is great concept with more than 6000people all around world, and people with diverse experience are great resources to learn

Cons

1. what they are pursuing is just efficiency not a balance between efficiency and quality. 2. most of them are pretending that they are expert in some part but if you look at it deeply then you can find that they can only talking not performing well. 3. they do not have any philosophy for design. 4. salary negotiation is in June and new salary starts in July. so someone hired there in between March and June, there will be no bonus and they have to wait for new increased salary until June next year. 5. when you have job offer from other firm, then do not mention it until you get bonus. they will not give you even that bonus is for what you performed last year if you mention it. Essentially, Gensler has ‘bonus day’ and party on Friday in June. i worked there more than 15month and left after bonus day but they did not give me bonus. so be careful when you leave G. 6. 90 days performance review. now they have a lot of projects so it will be ok but you should know they can fire within 90days easily. 7. be careful when you join G. what they are saying will be some hope, not exactly you will have. Particularly, when you are negotiating your salary then they will include everything in order to show bigger than real. also they provide paid overtime but it is not one and half times, insurance there quite expensive than other firm. that means that when you have salary negotiation, just look at base salary on paper they show. 8. normal salary increasing rate is lower than other firm. 9-20 later

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Gensler Response
6y
Gensler treats the concerns of our people seriously. We have a robust system with multiple channels for raising questions and reporting issues. Encouraging our people to ask questions and raise issues is critical to supporting our culture and our values of integrity, trust, and mutual respect.
2.0
Jul 19, 2019

Slowly dying

Recommend
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Pros

Top clients, decent benefits, looks good on resume, they try to claim to be people-first firm..

Cons

-Strangely unwelcoming atmosphere, people don't really talk. -Work is repetitive, no actual design involved. -Work has no value, hard to maintain your passion for design -Depends on who you work with, but I have encountered people playing hierarchy by asking you to do inane task like pick up prints etc.

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Gensler Response
6y
As part of Gensler’s culture, we have an open door policy encouraging our team members to come forward with any concerns or issues they are experiencing so we may work together to resolve them.
2.0
Apr 29, 2019

Toxic Work Culture

Recommend
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Pros

ESOP and Profit-Sharing can be lucrative.

Cons

Gensler Austin has a stiflingly oppressive work culture where teams and individuals are pitted against each other for projects; no collaboration. Leadership plays favorites and those in middle management are self-serving. Must be willing to play heavy politics.

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Gensler Response
7y
Thanks for taking the time to provide this feedback. We want our people to make their voices heard.
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