Pros
- fiscally responsible - competitive salaries and good benefits package - good working environment (if you like open offices) - nice location - good internal support mechanisms (with regard to HR) - great place for aspiring designers/architects/PM's to learn - tremendous opportunity for systems thinking - truly interdisciplinary - engaged in sustainability, community efforts and non-profit work = drives positive impact - architectural work is robust and quite lovely
Cons
- slightly staid in their management approach - don't toot their own horn nearly enough - marketing is next to none - not tied in well enough to related disciplines such as experience design, service design, UX - lack flexibility and speed to market with new tools and methods - "meeting culture" takes up too much time and is often ineffective - organization is often too democratic and pseudo flat - difficult in the case of new incentives due to lack of discipline and focus - lack of introspection and realistic comparison to the competition - seller/doer model not very effective