Pros
A lot of work and responsibility Travel for site surveys Put together full project sets by yourself See a project from beginning to end Get paid overtime
Cons
Bad management and disorganization Constantly understaffed No mentoring nor opportunity for growth Cannot really rise nor be promoted within company Pigeonholed into a position (cannot be promoted from a Designer to anything but Project Manager) Pigeonholed on projects (if you're a member of the Starbucks team you will only work on Starbucks projects) No outreach with the architecture community, no activities or office events No resources for ARE Exam / No encourgement to become licensed Many disgruntled and overworked employees Members of the Starbucks team often have to work 50/60 hour weeks and come in on weekends Constantly in the office late at night to finish deadlines No break in between project deadlines (you will be working on a project set by yourself, when one project deadline is done, you move to the next project deadline) Large employee overturn Very few stay at company for over 2 years No laptops given out to designers, no opportunity to VPN Awful Coffee