Group One Partners Reviews

In our business there is a not so natural ebb and flow of business. Typically either buried in deadlines or looking for tasks with other teams to fill your time. If you need extra help you have to ask for it and hopefully someone will be available to jump on board. Being a smaller firm you often find yourself helping out on projects that you are not familiar with to meet a deadline that has moved due to forces outside your control. If you are not particularly comfortable with this industry and flexible with your skills and time you might sink versus swim. Some people who have worked here over the years may have been highly skilled but not in the ways needed. Ownership has a tendency to give them the benefit of the doubt and hold onto them longer than they maybe should have leaving others to pick up their short comings in a hope they will rise to the challenge. It is only an issue because we are a smaller firm and one nonperformer affects the overall team.

Toxic work culture and poor leadership ability in design departments leads to long working hard but not smart hours, unclear communication within departments, cranking out budget projects with little creative opportunity. Unhealthy internal culture with no opportunity for growth or professional development.