Work-Life Harmony and Green Company
Pros
It has a relax ambience and lots of flexibility. You are not in a corporate world, no bureaucracy and you're part of the family. You don't need to wear business attire, can potentially work remote if you are trustworthy and have flexible hours. I could switch my weekend to weekdays if there is no immediate deadlines or meetings. They involve you in company meetings and decisions by having weekly staff meetings and quarterly workshops. The company believes in green, sustainable design. They are not afraid to try something new even though there may be growing pain of learning including some financial loses. We did and wrote a study of minimizing virus spread thru thoughtful HVAC (re-)design to prepare building owners to open after Covid lockdown. They are more of a boutique engineering company than a cookie cutter. They will let you be an independent thinker and no micro managing. This company will fit for those who are independent, love to have work-life harmony, and like the small company feeling. Everyone there is nice and loves the outdoors. The owner is very smart and knowledgeable.
Cons
There was still some growing pain. We were working on streamlining the processes to make the work more efficient and thus, produce more revenues which benefit everyone. The owner was spread thin between different hats and sometimes things fell in the crack because of it, such as not delivering project on time or no time for QC. He needed help to take some of the load off.
