- 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.
