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      SERA Architects

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      SERA Architects Reviews

      3.9

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (54 total reviews)
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      Allison Hanley

      100% approve of CEO

      63% positive business outlook

      SERA Architects has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 54 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SERA 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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      54 reviews
      1.0
      4 Oct 2018

      Extremely disorganized and lacks structure

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Pay is decent. Benefits are good.

      Cons

      Everyone tries to step all over each other. People are extremely unfriendly. There's a lot of favoritism towards people who have been with the firm for a while, which is understandable, but in a lot of cases, these people don't always have the best qualifications. Management keeps promoting individuals who have no experience and lack leadership skills. At the end of the day you get a lot of bossy folks running the show which just creates an extremely unpleasant work atmosphere.

      3.0
      27 Mar 2014

      Values the Sustainability of the Built Environment yet Struggling with Management and Leadership

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      SERA's best strength is a culture that values the sustainability of the built environment, the Portland locale, and bicycling to work. Many of the people were great to interact with. Individual empowerment to effect change was idealized.

      Cons

      Management is not skilled at leadership and nor are they pulling together to achieve a common vision. The subdivision of the company into studios led to rivalries, cliques, and boundaries between groups. IT was unnecessarily complex and difficult to navigate. Currently the company is going through an identity crisis: high design or analytical architecture.

      2.0
      20 Sept 2023

      Spends more on office than on their employees.

      Architect
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Super cool new office building with state of the art furniture, computer systems, and kegerators. The employees tend to be talented professionals.

      Cons

      Had to layoff over 60 employees in less than one year due to over-investing in office space that is now severely oversized for the number of employees left at the firm. Entirely too dependent on a singular tech client, and has no plan in place to find new work elsewhere. The pay is well below average and raises will be mitigated by the salary cuts they implement to stay afloat.

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