Where do I start? I began at Gensler where i immediately sensed that the onboarding process was poor. Once immersed into the work culture, there was very little if no work guidance and trajectory on day-to-day activities. Seeking this advice and guidance, I was met with indifference due to a lack of organization with managment. In order to continue with albeit some direction, I had to use my own personal laptop to achieve these directives as the advice from co-workers and management was they "didn't have the time or budget to spend on the software" after explaining certain software and platforms were necessary to perform the design and render objectives. I did use my personal laptop from home but then several co workers were upset that the work wasn't going "fast enough." Really...after explained my laptop was a bit out of date due to personal finances and the salary I was being paid at Gensler to purchase another was not adequate to purchase (which wasn't my responsiblity obviously). I did seek constantly direction in meetings and assistance and guidance on achieving the goals of certain projects to no avail. I also went to several other employees to learn about circumferential and peripheral projects in hope I would learn about what I would be doing. As always, I was met with indifference and then anger when I would try to ask. Really....this is from a large, professional design firm in NYC where the managment was distant and had no interest in pursuing a trajectory toward success on my behalf. Yes, it was super strange this experience and there is no exaggeration on how poor the environment was at Gensler in Midtown NYC. I have worked in design firms for years and have never seen such arrogance and disorganization. Seriously unbelievable and seems almost hallucinatory. A sincerely bad experience that I last 4 months and I have tried to put behind me.
