Great ownership of work, social life, team - Architectural Assistant MSMR Architects Employee Review

People are nice and friendly. A lot of young professionals so there are occasional office events to enjoy. If you like working on commercial office fit outs or interior heavy heritage type of projects with a range of top end expensive materials, you may find amusing to collecting samples and specify. If you are senior level, running a project by yourself, it is more comfortable to work. The office promote finishing work on time, so it is relatively easy to maintain good work and life balance.

This is CAD office with only one or two Revit projects. I was informed that they were looking for Revit user, was not informed that the office mainly operates with auto CAD. The office tries to avoid accepting Revit projects as much as possible, so it is limited chance to work on Revit projects. The resource management is chaotic; the management team moves around people over few projects very frequently, even the team leader levels, so it is hard to commit. The most of management team are originally from small practices: the office management is suitable for 20~25 people despite there are currently 50people working. There are a lot of projects inherited from other architects or teams inside with very messy cad files. The office has very old and basic cad standard and inconsistent filing management, it takes time to find a information or record. The office invests only senior team for their trainings for the new knowledge; latest BSR, fire safety, etc, and you will never know if those information will be shared across other architects. You need to convince management team your will to attend any training courses etc.

Good benefits and pay, very well organised, A lot of activities, socialising - in general, very well run company.

No room to progress unless you are one of the chosen ones. Really odd attitude to employing people - people come and then just disappear. Repetitive work with similar stuff done over and over again.