Pros
- Minimal supervison - job is easy and relatively stress free - great medical benefits (medical, dental, and vision) - good place to hone AutoCAD skills - if you are part of the rendering team, really great place to master Sketchup modeling and V-Ray renders
Cons
- Interior Design practice/division of company is ruled by retail management; if you come from professional practice, this is extremely frustrating - Difficult and disrespectful clients cannot be fired/refused to do work for them. - Not much in terms of professional career growth (lack of NCIDQ or ASID) certified designers - If you are looking for an architectural license, only option is working in HQ directly with CEO and other architects; limited project scopes - Hard to grow quickly in company if you don't foster good relationship with both local and senior leadership. even then it has to be pushed for around annual review times or extraordinary circumstances. - Salaried positions have zero work/life balance - Hourly positions are punished if you go into overtime - Management culture in my location was riddled with nepotism and cult-like following for the company and CEO - Daily values meetings tend to waste more time than bring anything of value. They are a good place to practice public speaking and the use more formal "luxury" vocabulary.