Great Work, Great People, Regressive Leadership - Designer LS3P Employee Review

3.0
Oct 20, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

LS3P has some incredible talent. There are great technical leaders and a few good designers. They have managed to recruit some wonderful young people as well.

Cons

The leadership here is antiquated and backwards. There is a significant disparity between the managing principles of the firm, and the young people they are bringing in. A vast majority of the middle level mentors and architects have left because of this lack of agile leadership, and far better pay elsewhere. While offering competitive salaries from the start, LS3P is known for stagnating even extremely talented people, and trusting the young employees will not talk about it. We do. Every other architecture firm in Charlotte is offering overtime pay for employees not in positions of leadership - LS3P should be too, to place value on the amount of overworking so many here do. There is virtually no investment in design innovation, firmwide.

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5.0
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Pros

Good work environment that is team based

Cons

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4.0
Mar 19, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

People who find their team here will love working here, plenty of mentorship opportunities, big projects that provide some level of job security, lots of learning and training opportunities usually covered in part or in full by the firm

Cons

If you end up in the wrong team or sector and youre not a good fit for that small teams culture youre gonna hate it. Some teams have more cliquey feelings.

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