Gensler reviews

- The office is Shrinking instead of growing, terrible management, horrible strategic errors over and over in the last 2 years. In the last months two studios merged. Living out of old accounts, no new exciting projects coming. - New office leadership is really bad, two big mistakes made: 1- the only person with a vision for design moved to a regional level and the overlap with new leaders was minimum. 2- the two new management people are destroying this office's future. One of them had been 20 years out of Gensler managing a small residential boutique office and has no idea of how a 150 office works. The other has been forever in Gensler so it has no idea what other concepts are worth. This last person also failed a first Principal Interview (something surely was detected), and next year they placed a "coach" to help that promotion, this just shows how politics are used internally. - The people with real vision don't last, in the last year I've seen 2 Design Directors, and a Studio Director come and go, leaving either because they want to really change the system for good OR can't stand the atmosphere of focusing on profit solely. - Some studios have a toxic environment, with people that have big egos, or think they are better than what they really are, not allowing others to shine. - I'm now looking for new opportunities, very disappointed with how this office is not even a shadow of how the past leaders had it.

Upper management is only looking out for themselves and the bonuses from bringing in work. Will underbid projects to get their bonuses. Will put the responsibility on the project managers and staff to get the project completed resulting often in massive unpaid overtime. They will then bill hours at a partners rate to the job weekly although they do little to nothing just so they can create the illusion of being profitable as a partner. And of course, you can guess who gets to work evenings and overtime to make up for the lost project revenue. There is no honesty or integrity among most of the partners. It is a culture that is rotting from the top down and the container has become so infused replacing replacing the people will only rotten them.