Designit reviews

2.6

24% would recommend to a friend

(254 total reviews)
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Keri Dawson

40% approve of CEO

14% positive business outlook

Designit has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 254 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Designit employee rating is 30% below average for employers within the Administración y consultoría industry (3.7 stars).

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254 reviews
1.0
Oct 5, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free food, beer, wine, coffee. Great location.

Cons

Toxic work culture where team members back-bite and gossip. Superiority complex runs rampant without proven credibility in the field of technology, web, or mobile design. Lack of empathy and respect for the talent of peers, with larger systemic control issues and unwillingness to grow. No autonomy or room for thinking outside of the box. Must follow strict scripts when creating designs, no wiggle room for creativity.

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Designit Response
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Thank you for your feedback and honesty. This is not the type of employee experience we want to promote at Designit, and hearing your feedback is critical so that we can continue to make improvements. We pride ourselves as an organisation to think and act like a design community and family, and we're sorry to hear that wasn't the impression you received during your time here. We'll make sure to identify ways within our Brooklyn team to collectively approach some of these topics.
1.0
Aug 19, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It doesn't matter what the Pros are when employees are used as collateral to pad and support the employment of incompetent senior staff. This company WAS incredible. But, new executive leads have led to four batches of layoffs in under 2 years and no signs of gaining the necessary clientele to hold things together. -Incredible levels of internal talent! Ive never been so intimidated -Wonderful ideas of inclusion and culture -Schedule and accommodations were more than fair

Cons

-Zero internal support. It is widely known that the clients interpretation of your work holds 5 times as much weight as internal reviews. -Those responsible for obtaining new clientele are unable to fulfill their responsibilities -Ground-level employees that do incredible work never get the recognition they deserve if they don't know how to play the internal self-promotional games -Frequency of layoffs was staggering, with 4 large groups of employees being let go at random times throughout the year within a 20 month span -There are no raises, and the games you need to play to gain a promotion are unbalanced and undefined -Company-wide meetings have digressed to a depressing series of moments where failures are danced around with well-intended promises that are bookended with bad news -The company is a few well-placed staffing changes away from being incredible. The ideas are there, they just need executives that are capable of actually pulling it off.

2.0
May 18, 2020

Have an exit strategy

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Rational is a fine place to work for a while if you need it. All of the lower-level employees are smart, talented, fun people to be around.

Cons

Upper management will use and abuse you until you're a burned out husk of what you once were.

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