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- Great team with wide range of skills.
- Challenging Clients and projects types.
- Fun and feels like home.
- PDR process and development program.
- Training and career development.
- Projects types and collaboration.
- Good benefits for management and leadership with profit sharing.
- Top edge technology.
- Facilities well equipped with good operations.
- good office culture with team work.
- Good market share.
- You will learn a lot on daily basis due to the type of projects, challenges and deadlines.
- Quality of planning work is cutting edge that exceeds any other competitor in the market.
- Design and planning work culture is fun and interesting with a lot to learn from senior leaders in the business.
- Good graduate program with a lot of support.
- Customer service and customer over-promise needs improvement including a new business development strategy.
- The most enjoyable part of working is the team, and the resources available to complete the job with global reach.

HOK was a good learning experience.  I learned about airports and prisons/jails..
I supervised drawing preparation in Revit. 
I worked on specification preparation.
I participated in planning and design meetings with architects and owners' representatives.
I interacted with other discipline engineers.
The most enjoyable part of the job was working with other engineers who appreciated my mentoring and knowledge of engineering.
The hardest part of the job was leaving when I was laid off.
Management was good but they hired too many architects and engineers and when the work slowed down, as it always does, there was a company wide layoff.

Decent place to work for a couple years, but they tend to hold people in the position they are hired into. Instead of training existing employees the skills they need to advance, they like to hire from the outside, which obviously frustrates those working hard for a promotion. The office leadership is not in alignment either, so there are mixed messages about what the office's goals are and how projects should be executed. Despite the frustration and confusion, they produce a pretty cool project once in a while and there are good people to work with.

10-15 hours per week
Mostly in my home office, some from your home OK
I am a consultant with high level of professionalism and expect the same of this position
Office organization, filing, scanning, internet searches, occasional errands
Must know MS Word, Excel, Google Docs, You will be tested on these skills
You must be a sharp / fast thinker with a can do attitude
Hours and work is somewhat flexible/variable and will be set 1-2 weeks in advance
If you are chosen, you will need to agree to reference and background checks
Compensation based on experience, you will be an independent contractor

Team member on the Salt Lake City International Airport Terminal Redevelopment Project
● Managed day to day workflow of the department and coordination with the general contractor, sub
consultants, and project owner’s team
● Managed project documents both electronic and paper, while converting exclusively to electronic
● Handled frequent telephone, email and personal contact with internal employees, external clients, and project
owner
● Provided project support by composing correspondence, project progress reports, and invoices, performs data
entry and maintains project files.

People will gladly welcome you here, there are lots of events organized. 
DC's office has a lot of different departments, including sustainability, justice, health care, interior, landscape... So it is a great place to start a career if you want to specialize in one of these areas, learn from skilled professionals and start building your network.
The office is located in a nice historical district. But DC is very expensive. I struggled as an international intern and didn't get much help on housing nor visa cost. I don't think they support visas' costs globally. 

A St. Louis design firm that grew under strong leadership in the nineties and ealry 2000s. Massive leadership change and aging views at the top combined with the stressors of the uncertain economy have created a highly political, blame-based environment. People are commodities to be bought and sold--not talent to contribute to a new future. Beware any who choose to work here.

HOK is one of the largest architecture firms in the world, and as such is able to offer benefits that many smaller firms cannot. While the culture within the firm seems inclusive and one that values their employees as a whole, the top-down mentality undermines this sense on inclusion.

My internship was very fulfilling and hands-on. I got to work on a lot of projects at all stages of design and learned a lot about the process. Material management, selection, space planning, specs, meeting with vendors, contributing to concept ideas, etc. Highly highly recommend. Everything I learned has been applicable in some capacity in everything I've done since then. Also seemed to have a great and healthy work-life balance and still had time to have office get-togethers for team morale. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
People oriented, good support on projects

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Commute into Houston.  Houston traffic is awful

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Generally friendly, sometimes a bit stressful.  But that is the nature of the beast.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Very busy, technically oriented.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
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