Vantaggi
It is small and local. There are a few good people there.
Svantaggi
Everything else. From its micromanagement perspective to their completely backward approach to using modern drafting tools to the "this is how we've always done it" mentality, this company is struggling to keep people. For a 16 person operation having 5 people leave or be fired in less than 6 months seems high, but the majority of the staff has that beaten, "keep your head down" manner you will find in any poorly managed company. This company stays afloat by grinding out work at the expense of their employees. They have programmed AutoCAD short cuts and list routines to bypass almost all of the main features utilized by everyone else in the industry in favor of a streamlined drafting process created probably 10-15 years ago. There is a learning curve for anyone currently proficient in AutoCAD, and not just in the usual way of getting familiar with standards and preferences, but with how they use the software. Their way of producing drawings appears very efficient but it can be frustrating in their lack of real understanding of AutoCAD and CAD standards. They claim to be using Revit, but they don't really. They have reduced it to a drafting tool be eliminated the use of informational parameters in their families. They have gone out of their way of programming a lot of plain text parameters with titles to make their mechanical schedules work. It functions fine, but their is no real usable information stored in the families or the model, so they have stripped it of most of Re it's useful features. Add to that, any change is fought with heavy resistance. The CAD support group hate Revit, management claims to want to be able to use it because 70% of the architects they work with use it exclusively, but they continue to compare it to the very stripped down, efficient approach they have with AutoCAD, with which a standard AutoCAD user could barely compete, let alone someone just learning Revit.