great company - local offices vary - Project Architect HDR Employee Review

4.0
Feb 20, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Big firm with good benefits and competitive salary. a lot of resources for all sorts of certifications and support with study material and reimbursement for licensing process.

Cons

the experience varies greatly between each regional office. The Chicago office is understaffed and tends to overload their workers. change in management greatly affected office culture. limited opportunities for project experience outside of the healthcare, justice and science+tech markets in architecture.

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5.0
Jul 16, 2026
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Pros

Growing Company, Employee owned, forward thinking

Cons

No clear defined hierarchy for the company below upper management level.

1.0
Jul 13, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The 401k is good, that's it..

Cons

The main complaint is having to beg for work within the company. They don't have enough work to give you and then complain that your overhead is too high. Communication and training is terrible. I've sent numerous emails to coworkers only to be ignored. You have to keep reaching out for someone to respond to you. The project managers also don't budget the labor for their projects well. They're very tight about how many hours you should spend on an assignment and it's often unreasonable, like read and compare a 600+ page document to a 300+ page technical document in 2 work days. The health insurance sucks too. Things that used to be covered are no longer covered such as basic labs. The insurance carrier is always denying services such as an MRI.

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