Great team, but crazy low pay - Landscape Architectural Designer AHBL Employee Review

3.0
12 Apr 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great supportive landscape team, friendly to work and collaborate with. Some interesting community projects, had good opportunity to sketch and produce hand graphics and models. Pretty good work-life balance and comp time - only firm in the landscape arch field who I’ve heard of doing this.

Cons

Super low pay, especially for Seattle. As a single person who had recently graduated from a 3-year masters program, I could not afford to live in seattle on this salary and left. Old school, top down management, a bit of micromanagement as well. Overall, seemed like a conservative firm that was hard-pressed to try new ways of operating/managing. Very low diversity and mainly run by a bunch of old white guys.

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5.0
4 Aug 2025
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Pros

Good benefits and helpful management team that cares about all the employees

Cons

No personal laptop given for remote work,

1.0
9 Nov 2025
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Pros

Wide variety of projects is great for learning, but this is true of any consulting job

Cons

Management is frequently rude and belittling, making inappropriate comments about employees identity and offensive jokes. Project management is disorganized, though project managers are trying their best. Other staff were great and supportive.

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