Great Work, Great People, Regressive Leadership
Pros
LS3P has some incredible talent. There are great technical leaders and a few good designers. They have managed to recruit some wonderful young people as well.
Cons
The leadership here is antiquated and backwards. There is a significant disparity between the managing principles of the firm, and the young people they are bringing in. A vast majority of the middle level mentors and architects have left because of this lack of agile leadership, and far better pay elsewhere. While offering competitive salaries from the start, LS3P is known for stagnating even extremely talented people, and trusting the young employees will not talk about it. We do. Every other architecture firm in Charlotte is offering overtime pay for employees not in positions of leadership - LS3P should be too, to place value on the amount of overworking so many here do. There is virtually no investment in design innovation, firmwide.
