Designory Reviews

Leadership positions have been occupied by the same individuals for over 10+ years. Little advancement opportunities and promotions are empty titles. Most teams are disproportionately staffed with too many "leaders" who are always out of the office at some conference or [NAME DROP] networking event. If not then it's vacation because they need a break. Like another review mentioned, it wouldn't be a nuisance if they didn't have to approve projects. Training is a major problem since it's non-existent. New team members are left to flounder around until they figure things out or have a team member show them the ropes. Across the board insanity on how to do a project if someone get switched out midway. The global accounts are managed in complete chaos. Multiple high level individuals on the same project yet having no tangible evidence of work other than forwarding emails - so others can actually do the work. Account leaders don't draw a line with clients so all requests are fair game (no matter how unreasonable). Other Cons - -Empty promises of opportunities in other office. Sure a couple of people switched to other offices, but that's hardly a program to brag about if it's only temporary until someone local is hired. -People get hired for one role and then get placed in an area where they are unqualified. -General incompetence is not frowned upon but the norm. -If you have hobbies, forget them. You won't have time. -Little to no effort to retain talent. I get that in the ad world agency hopping for raises is typical, but then again so is rewarding those that have put countless of hours get the job done. -Management makes promises to clients that aren't practical/feasible and then flip out on the team when there are issues meeting deadlines. -No communications on team members that leave/get let go. Work seems to get diverted to people at random with little awareness to ability/workload. -Ethical problems aplenty. Management ignores issues so most go unreported. Even if you do go to HR they can't be trusted to actually do anything to the tenured or those that were hired because of nepotism. Open door policy is kind of a joke.

The culture is full of cliques and emotional abuse. If you don't find your tribe, you will be set up, and taken down for sport. HR is a joke, as they allow this to flourish and continue. Don't make the mistake of reporting. Prepare to be asked out non stop by the many men in the place, who will stand at your desk and text you at all hours. When you tell them you are not interested, again your head will wind up on a wall. The first warning sign is the creative teams love of Jimmy Johns sandwiches and beer. Of course the project management is so lacking in any type of system, you are also guaranteed to have to work all hours with these people as well so that accounts can appear on top of things. Tech capabilities are lacking and switch off at 5pm. The leaders of the team wear computer related T-shirts to establish their early credibility.