Assembly is not for someone who hasn't put flatpack furniture together before but the instructions are good and the assembly parts are labeled, the fasteners are easy to identify and they even include some spare fasteners.  My unit came with a pretty good ding on the lower left side and all the drawer bottoms were cracked but since they are only heavy paperboard they still worked. As other reviewers have noted, it does have significant outgassing, but worse than that is regular hanging folders DO NOT fit on the drawer hanger bars. The bars are spaced just a hair too far apart so  that the notches on the folders don't catch even though they do rest on the bar.  As one other reviewer noted you'd need to get, some Pendaflex SureHook hanging folders to have secure hanging folders.  I think the asking price is too high for a product that has some serious flaws.