Handel Architects Reviews

Many of the managers (senior associates) are TERRIBLE. These are folks who merely stuck around long enough to get a promotion, but really lack communication skills and management skills. Quite a few are temperamental and fail to give clear direction. The office's practice of promoting loyal employees or talented designers should be a good thing, but because there have been so many senior associates with poor management skills, the most talented staff end up leaving before reaching senior associate status. This creates a revolving door environment that the partners probably like to tell themselves filters out the lazy/poorly equipped staff but more realistically filters out the most ambitious and hungry designers leaving just the timid and ambivalent staff to remain. Also HR could offer more solutions to these issues but remains typically silent//powerless.

- you will see the claim for diversity, but if you look closely, you will see the firm uses visa sponsorship as a way of having cheap labor - you will also notice white employees rise quickly, and typically are the office favorites - diverse people in senior roles need to work x20 harder to get promoted, or need to be a complete doormat. - lack of HR/fake HR enables bullying culture from many senior PMs. No matter how many complaints are filed, juniors lose their jobs but favorite seniors will not improve their behavior and are enabled by leadership. Bad managers are not held accountable for bullying behavior.