Start Up (not good) Vibes - Project Manager Gensler Employee Review

1.0
Aug 2, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get to work in a nice office in downtown LA Digital Experience Design provided opportunities for learning about successful technical integration and sequence Fun Projects

Cons

This review is for the Digital Experience Design sector. BIPOC Diversity is extremely rare (may not even exist at this point) here. High amount of politics, focus on billable hours far supersedes employee satisfaction Not enough hours on Projects due to financial impacts. No real opportunity for growth Directors are too busy to provide proper employee support & growth opportunities, reviews were spent meeting with a boss that half listened (due to lack of care or perhaps busy-ness). Constant changes in leadership make it very hard to keep up with who is the providing direction & make it impossible to feel settled and grow. Everyone is running around extremely busy to make proper decisions for their staff or their Projects. Your experience and abilities will be reviewed at face-value (who you know and how close you are with your boss) rather than by true skill-set. Projects will be given to preferred team members rather than by Project type experience or Project Management abilities.

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Gensler Response
2y
Thanks for taking the time to share feedback on your experience at Gensler. We appreciate your candor and consider all the feedback we receive and will share your comments with leadership .

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Cons

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1.0
May 29, 2026
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Pros

Nice office, lots of “rah rah Gensler” events with food & booze, some nice people

Cons

Where do I start…..some studios are TOXIC. Favoritism permeates every aspect of working here. It’s nauseating. There is zero loyalty, zero recognition for hard work (yeah you get a bonus but sometimes a kind word is needed). Oh-and never ever express an opinion that may be in opposition to “leadership’s”. Your private life, beliefs, politics and other personal things are fair game for letting you go. I’ve seen it happen-fired because someone expresses in a private conversation that one has ethical concerns regarding projects that are in the office (but in another studio/office) will get you fired. They will make up some bs about “work performance”, yet no conversation ever with anyone about “needing improvement “. Out of left field. Bye bye. Management tells leadership that they’d already “warned” the person-completely untrue. Hear later it was likely due to having concerns about a client/project. Lesson learned-shut up, work 12 hrs a day and be happy with the scraps you’re thrown. Also-egos galore! Unwillingness to take accountability for mistakes.

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