Great colleagues with the messiest working system I ever seen - Architectural Assistant MAD Architects Employee Review

2.0
17 Apr 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Work environment pretty informal. A lot of funny people to work with.

Cons

you are a no brain tool in the hands of your boss. The main part of the projects are managed by young architects without the necessary experience. They are not able to manage the team and the workload, so the result consists in a lot of overtime hours for a really bad product. The partners have not the necessary experience too, in fact they care only about the final renderings (a lot of reviews are about the colors of the trees and the general quality of the images) The salary is really low. The main part of the office is Chinese and a lot of people are not able to speak english....even during the meetings you often need "subtitles". Human resources and office management and administration are really bad organized. Probably the best period of this office is gone.

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5.0
5 Apr 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Coworkers are kind and talented - You are given responsibilities that push you to grow - Interesting projects

Cons

- Long hours as expected - Limited interaction with coworkers unless sought out, which could also be a pro

5.0
27 Jul 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Easy to grow when you are willing to work, Management shows appreciation to people who are willing to take responsability, lots of talented people that stay humble, good coffee, great to improve your ping pong game, very nice and light office space, Beijing is a great city (except for the pollution)

Cons

Long working hours, hard to have anything else besides work, not so much design input as most comes from one hand...

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MAD Architects Response
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I hope you are having a good time working in MAD. your advice is valuable, thank you for bring it up. MAD will try to make improvement for this everyday. If you have any further thoughts and solutions suggested, please come and talk to me any time. Even words are not well expressed, but all the hard work from every architects are highly appreciated in MAD.
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