I will start off by saying, once the desk is assembled it is very nice for the price. With that said, the desk was advertised as not needing assembly, which is one of the main reasons I picked this desk. The desk most definitely needs to be assembled. Took about 3 1/2 hours to assemble and the desk top was very difficult to install. Once together, we inserted the drawers and one of the drawers would not slide in. Upon further inspection, we realized that one of the side mount drawer slides was installed backwards ( the drawer slides were already assembled to the drawer when unpacking desk pieces). After installing correctly, drawer slid in just fine. It was a pain to put together, but it does look & function very nicely and the price was right.