DXA Studio Reviews

2.9

23% would recommend to a friend

(15 total reviews)

35% positive business outlook

DXA Studio has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 15 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there.

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15 reviews
2.0
10 Feb 2017

Great staff, but massive growing pains/management issues

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people. DXA hires very well, they go after talent, and you can trust that all your coworkers will be hard-working, passionate and capable people. It's a diverse office in terms of nationality and talents, but definitely skewed towards a younger work force. While this brings a lot of enthusiasm, it also means a lot of growing pains due to lack of experience. There is a lot of responsibility given to every level, so no one can be a slacker. Really good people, although not many stick around for long, but if you do there are opportunities to move up the ranks quickly. Compensation is decent, but benefits are pretty basic.

Cons

Management is stretched incredibly thin, and expectations are through the roof. Every deadline, every project, every client presentation is a frantic flurry of late nights/all-nighters. Seems like almost every project runs out of fee on a given phase and you have to get creative in billing current hours to other phases, which in turn means you run out of fee on the next phase... it's a bad cycle that leave many projects lacking the man power or management they really need. All this leads to an exhausting schedule, and there is a lot of turnover.

3.0
23 Aug 2022
Recommend
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Pros

People at the office are pretty easygoing and nice to work with; not a lot of big egos or climbers. Just good people trying to get good work out. A solid number of the projects are quite nice and there is a good level of technical expertise, along with opportunities to get involved with different phases of design and project execution. Tasks and responsibilities aren’t siloed like at some other offices. There are happy hours and whiskey and a keg in the kitchen. Mondays and Fridays are WFH.

Cons

Nothing that isn’t endemic to the profession as a whole. Low-to-middling pay. Some poor management at a lot of junctures. Many late nights around deadlines that can lead to burnout and exhaustion. Weird policy requiring a months’ notice for taking any PTO, and no remote work allowed at all outside of the regular Monday and Friday. Some of the managers feel a little set in their ways. Feels like the office needs to exploit every employee to a degree to remain solvent. But of course, this can be said about literally any architecture office. Especially in the “big apple.”

3.0
18 Apr 2022

B-

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Pros

Young, enthusiastic staff Leadership tries to keep positive office environment Great opportunity to gain experience quickly and on a variety of fronts (design concepts, CDs, CA, DOB/LPC/Zoning Board/Community Board)

Cons

cheap, exploitative developer clients Repetitive high end residential projects

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