Pros
+Design leadership and culture in the office is strong. +Project portfolio is diver and work opportunity are available in multiple sectors. +Architects care deeply about the quality of their documents and the craft of their built work. +Mentorship opportunities are good. +Quality control procedures are robust.
Cons
-Office culture is corporate to a fault. Management has a mentality that would be better suited to the east coast than the mountain west. -Management considers all architectural staff, including unlicensed interns, to be professionally exempt under section 13 of FLSA. As such, no overtime pay is provided, despite employees the fact that employees are regularly expected to work over 40 hours per week. -Turnover is extremely high due to employee burnout. -CEO has an unfortunate tendency to pick a few favorite employees, and promote them at rates that are disproportionate to more senior staff members who have been quietly contributing quality work to the firm for many years.