This desk is very nice looking and seems quite sturdy. However, it does take several hours to put it together. The directions are not hard to follow and all the parts were there, but there are a lot of parts and many, many screws. I bought 2 desks and in both cases, there were cracks in the desktop veneer.
One desk had 3 and the other 1. Since it would have required a substantial amount of time and work to disassemble it and get another desk top, I elected to cover the cracks with a sharpie black marker. This made the cracks almost invisible.