Buro Happold reviews

- The most prominent negative I encountered was the working hours. I was often given far too much work to complete within normal hours, and this was not uncommon for my colleagues. Complaints about overwork were often unheard or sated by managers with "I am also overworked, just like you", which is not a valid argument to make to employees. I suspect the reason is that BH is trying to compete with far larger design consultancies, and is bidding too low for very risky projects. I often felt that I was personally donating the % profit on projects with my free time in evenings. It was not uncommon for me to stay until 8/9/10pm every weekday for several weeks in a row. - The C-Suite / upper management were, I felt, a little out of touch with the use of modern technology. Given that a design consultancy's work is almost entirely completed using various engineering software, there was no real support within the Cities division to train people or push our use of technology in a beneficial direction. The management gave a lot of talk about a drive to get engineers coding, but I never saw any evidence of this. To their credit, I believe the Buildings division was far more open-minded than Cities in this respect.

Salary is not the most competitive within the market Other than that I cannot think of many negatives.