Pros
I was surprised I got paid each month
Cons
From the outside the practice looks great with a nice website showcasing exciting projects, promises were made at the interview to work on similar schemes. The reality was that were was minimal work in the office, often little to do. Sometimes you were given projects to work on then told to drop them the next day. Some projects seemed to be fictional, just given a random site on google maps and told to design a house for a non-existent client. This leads you to question your job security as none of this can be sustainable. Sometimes you were told to stop working on every project and you were sat wondering what to even do. The practice does not pay for enough software licenses. They use cracked versions or software trials to get the work done. To issue drawings you have to find someone else in the practice who isn't on a trial version of the software so the work can be sent our without watermarks on them. You are given tasks to do but you don't even have the software to do them. The management is chaotic, often with no clear direction. The owner of the company seems happier to create the illusion of a busy and successful practice rather than actually run one ie. the fake office address in New York which does not exist. He needs to evaluate if his heart really is in this and reflect on the way he runs the practice. Staff are inexperienced and thrown in at the deep end, its only a matter of time until serious errors are made.