Career opportunity? I don't think so... - Anonymous employee DLR Group Employee Review

2.0
Apr 16, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great culture, good people, integrated design, music in the office, friendly environment - Flexible work schedule, frequent happy hours, employee-owned firm, good benefits

Cons

- Very top heavy firm and below average salaries that may... reach industry's standards after bonuses and profit-sharing. - Lack of project management, QA/QC and organizational structure. Employees are forced to work a lot of overtime hours in order to meet tight deadlines and tiny fees. - Employees are being promoted based on their superficial popularity within the firm and not their actual contributions or valuable skill-set they bring in. Therefore, having a title in this firm doesn't mean anything. - Even though the top management has an open-door policy to the firm's financials and overall group's performance, it maintains a very distant approach when it comes to employee's development and individual performance. - Over the last couple years, the firm hired a lot of BD people with big and short-term dreams who gradually offset the value of the good and well-respected employees. - The constant stress from the leadership about the firm's growth and future potential drives employees who want to have just a stable job out of their safe/comfort zone.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Apr 24, 2026
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Pros

-Good support for getting your license -Lots of office locations

Cons

-You aren’t valued as an employee, you are seen as a person in a seat and replaceable. This is made very clear during layoff seasons. -You don’t move up based on your project work or even your annual reviews. Promotions, raises and bonuses are heavily influenced by who you are friends with in leadership and how well you play corporate politics - Company has long term relationships with corrupt clients and refuses to damage or end this relationship despite internal employee outrage when this was shared. Multiple articles have been released about this incident and despite outrage they are continuing this work. I highly recommend googling this company before working for them as they lie about this during the interview process. -Have to pay to park at work -Process for receiving associate and principal titles is a popularity contest and not based on your actual contributions. -Regularly expected to work unpaid over time and project staffing is very inconsistent and unorganized. -Many people are underpaid and raises are percentage increases vs performance based. -Culture of Dallas office is extremely draining and hypocritical. Younger staff being held to higher standards than leadership. (Example - holding younger staff back salary wise due to not having a license while having multiple unlicensed people in positions of leadership) -Took away Hybrid work option and brought back mandatory 4 days in office -Sustainability is used as a marketing tool instead of actually being applied to projects. Lots of greenwashing happening on projects to meet AIA requirements.

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