Pros
-Very talented and generally welcoming lower level staff; a few higher level staff are energetic, passionate, and talented people that encourage and inspire the lower staff -Typically an inclusive and collaborative design process with all disciplines -Attempts at listening sessions for lower level staff to voice concerns were a good start, but more needs to be done -Generally speaking, the work life balance is good. Most people can maintain a 5 day work week
Kontras
-Extremely top heavy structure with zero accountability for upper management (80 person firm, roughly 20 principals); many principals at the firm are inappropriate to staff and are unproductive. Arrive late, leave early, sit around and chat. No one monitors or reviews their performance -Poor response to criticism -Promotions are solely based on how the Senior Prinicpals feel about a person; there is no true metric that is used to determine an employees value and employees are told contradictory information about promotions (ie “you don’t have enough experience” but someone with 2 years less is promoted above you) -Boy’s club/fraternity atmosphere, especially at the top -The company president has posted inaccurate/fake, discriminatory, and arguably racist posts on his public social media accounts; many staff learned of these posts, but the company failed to acknowledge them -Poor ethics and morals -Extremely high turnover for a small firm (majority is lower level) -As a previous review noted, the sexism, racism, nepotism, etc. is very prevalent and obvious