Non-discriminatory but poorly run business - Associate Studio-MLA Employee Review

1.0
Feb 15, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

High quality work on some of the best projects Los Angeles has to offer. Office cares about civic and social justice, diversity, equality for genders, races. Face none of the discrimination issues I have faced in other offices - which counts for a lot.

Cons

Disorganized mess. Zero trust in the staff. Very poorly run. Hostile leader with a bad attitude. Non-existent management meetings. Whatever the founder wants to do, she whispers to the one or two people she trusts. No group decision making or team input. It's the President and her 45 personal assistants. There's no respect for anyone.

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5.0
Apr 1, 2025
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Pros

The people, and the projects. This team wins some amazing landscape architecture projects and is very capable and creative.

Cons

Like all Landscape Architecture jobs, we're never paid enough. Studio-MLA offers a competitive salary and great learning opportunities.

1.0
Oct 10, 2025
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Pros

- interesting, high-level projects - while the team was small, a few colleagues were supportive and a pleasure to work with

Cons

- top-down, authoritarian management from the owner created a culture of poor management at all levels - opportunities for growth were extremely limited and at times was expected to handle work that didn’t match my job level - no real HR

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