TERRIBLE COMPANY - Anonymous employee GKW Architects Employee Review

You manage your own projects from start to finish. This is both good and bad because you are not micromanaged and have a lot of freedom. You will often be left to ‘sink or swim’ which gives very high highs and very low lows Co workers are generally very nice

Every other aspect of this office. The CEO behaves inappropriately very often and treats employees disrespectfully. Payroll is often late, wages are extraordinarily low, benefits are nonexistent. Generally speaking, this office operates by hiring desperate, freshly graduated people and overworking/underpaying them until they ultimately resign. No remote work

- Coworkers are friendly and supportive. - You get to work on projects from start to finish, which is a good way to jumpstart your career.

- This is no better than a minimum wage job, with no benefits AT ALL. Not even PTO. You're not allowed to take any vacation in your first year. - There's no training at all, but they expect you to know everything when you start otherwise you'll be called out, so you'll need to figure everything out for yourself. - Unethical husband and wife business, toxic work culture, and power-tripping boss. Expect mental harassment from him. He is a narcissist and talks down to everyone. He also humiliates and trash talks other employees and former employees (including his clients and consultants). Also extremely intrusive into your personal lives and will use it against you. - Terrible and unorganized management. Basically the boss is the HR. One person is required to do the job of five people. - He will never think your performance is good enough for a raise. The only time you get a raise is when the company is in a crisis and he is afraid that someone might resign. - Very high turnover rate. That is why the firm is chronically understaffed and projects are always overloaded. So you will need to do mandatory overtime.