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      3.3

      49% would recommend to a friend

      (63 total reviews)

      Yansong MA

      75% approve of CEO

      51% positive business outlook

      MAD Architects has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 63 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MAD Architects employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, repair and maintenance industry (3.7 stars).

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      63 reviews
      2.0
      17 Apr 2015

      Great colleagues with the messiest working system I ever seen

      Architectural assistant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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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.

      2.0
      27 Nov 2021

      Experience

      Senior architect
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Free meals sometimes, short conferences with local artist during lunch breaks.

      Cons

      Overworked, no mental health support under severe stress due to unrealistic deadlines. No over time pay or bonuses despite working from 9 to midnight every day of the week including weekends, and the list goes on.

      3.0
      27 Jan 2017

      Like a university studio...

      Architect
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Creative environment with the ability to be exposed to creating very much conceptual architecture into reality. depending on the turn over rate, people in the office generally become close due to spending so much time together. also note that career opportunity is high but mostly because of reputation on the CV after leaving the office, not meant for career opportunity within the office.

      Cons

      The realities of architecture in Beijing (or anywhere in china) is that no CD means you wont really learn anything past the DD stage. its ok for fresh grads and architects that like to think only in the conceptual realm. but this kind of environment wont really be accepted elsewhere. hours are extremely long and are UNPAID, expectations and demands for this kind of environment comes in a very passive aggressive manner with employees accepting it perpetuating the cycle of working these hours with not much left for personal time. something that people will most likely not want to say is that the reality is that the office is also located in Beijing, and overall is simply not a pleasant city to be in. has a huge effect on life quality.

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