Gensler Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"It was my first job out of CCA. It's changed now, but then it was a more superficial environment. Full of itselg and difficult to negotiate the egos there. It's a difference place now. I have good friends in principal positions there and the climate is very different. I told Arthur Gensler this myself back in the day. He was suprised by it and said that he would change it. He did."

What do you like about working at Gensler?

"What I liked most about working at Gensler is that it is the best in the industry. I like being identified with people who do their best and produce the highesst level of design possible. I like the energy that happens when you have a group of people who work together who have those same ideals. It was pretty fantastic that way, even though it was a short lived position. I think it worked out just as it was supposed to work out."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just to be yourself and show the best that you have to offer. Gensler is the #! design firm in this country. They want #1 style people. If you feel that way about yourself, then you don't even need to try, you're already what they want and you're already what you want for yourself."

What don't you like about working at Gensler?

"That at the time, employees spent more money on the clothes to look the part and lived in realtive simple apts. I always thought that odd, since for me, the most important thing is my passion, Interior Design. I put my passion into my home, first, and then fashion. I like both, but there is nothing that I love more than interiors, so my home needs to refelct that or I'm not being true to myself."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"It was a long time ago. The management style has changed a lot since then. As I've said, I have friends in high positions there now and I think that they are doing a great job and have made the company much more accessible."

"Gensler was my first job after school, a good place of learning and experiencing architecture."

"Past employer"

What do you like about working at Gensler?

"Its social environment is second to none, very fun and challenging place to work."

What don't you like about working at Gensler?

"Its not a technology company so its IT persons are not treated as fairly as they deserve."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None, its management is well implemented."

"Great projects and support that ranged from coast to coast"

What do you like about working at Gensler?

"growth, learning, support, endless technology projects"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Expect to be hard working and dedicated"

What don't you like about working at Gensler?

"projects are based on the economy. Numerous layoffs due to lack of projects"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Marketing more for a better backlog of work to keep employees"

"great company with good management processes"

What do you like about working at Gensler?

"varied project work, ability to travel, healthy resources for information"

What don't you like about working at Gensler?

"in-fighting between offices"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"focus more on the people, not things"

"Very professional; however, there are a lot of politics involved, but I would expect that from most large firms."

What do you like about working at Gensler?

"There professional atmoshpere, and the level of talent was you step inside the doors."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared and be persistant. If you want a challenge, work here. It a great company."

What don't you like about working at Gensler?

"The inconsistencies of their promotional and compensation evaluations."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would hope the management would become a little more clear in the process of upward mobility within the company. They try hard to explain it, but in the end it is a very subjective process."

"Use you then dump you."

What do you like about working at Gensler?

"Everyone was lax."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Demand at least 17 a hour or it's not worth your time. I had to do 5 moves in those 3 months I worked there. Then they got rid of me after the moves."

What don't you like about working at Gensler?

"The IT manager there just sat there all day and played flash games while everyone else did the work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't hire someone without certifications."

"managment needs help"

What do you like about working at Gensler?

"the potential for opportunities that I wouldn't normally have had as a commercial interior designer"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"be sure to be ery truthful in the interview as managment can't decipher how you will fit in just from your resume"

What don't you like about working at Gensler?

"management sucks...they wan't you to work the hours that THEY want to work and aren't flexible about anything."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"have a better interviewing process so that you can find employees that you like, get along with, know will get along with others in the office and push to get the projects you want"

"Good place to work."

What do you like about working at Gensler?

"The types of pojects they do."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Good luck."

What don't you like about working at Gensler?

"It was good place. I left because I was offered an opportunity to work for a company I had wanted to work for most of my career."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep doing what you're doing"

What do you like about working at Gensler?

"The people are so friendly and the benefits are excellent."

What don't you like about working at Gensler?

"The oppurtunity to achieve greater responsibility is minimal."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To give the lower people oppurtunity to take on more responsibility."