Vantaggi
There are some awesome people at HB. All of the offices/showrooms are beautiful, so it’s a nice place to work in-person. They have pretty good health benefits. They are a very reputable and established company, so their processes are well-baked, they’re well-organized, they have solid training for new employees and a lot of experience in the industry, especially on the furniture side of things.
Svantaggi
They’re not very flexible with remote work and don’t promote much of a work/life balance. They encourage and congratulate pulling all-nighters or working weekends to get deliverables done. Super easy to burn out. It’s a very sales-oriented company, which means that anyone who isn’t a salesperson (designers, project managers, installers, etc.) almost never gets recognized or rewarded. There is also more of a focus on making as MANY sales as possible, rather than focusing on more careful work that would result in fewer errors, higher project margins and the customer's needs truly being met. The salaries are low (especially in design) and there has always been a lot of turnover in the design department as a result. It’s very hard to get raises, especially ones that are large enough to even keep up with inflation, let alone grow in your career. In order to get ahead and be truly valued by the leadership at HB you have to be a shark, you need to be in the clique run by higher-up salespeople, and you need to be dishonest. There are a few superstars and a lot of peons at HB.