HIGH TURNOVER - BAD MANAGEMENT - Senior Software Developer Smashing Boxes Employee Review

Working with Smashing Boxes as a UI/UX designer is an exhilarating journey filled with innovation and endless opportunities. Here, you'll dive into a wide range of cutting-edge projects that challenge and inspire your creativity. The collaborative environment fosters teamwork and personal growth as you collaborate with diverse teams and clients from various industries. Smashing Boxes truly values user-centered design, allowing you to create meaningful and user-friendly experiences that genuinely impact lives. They also prioritize work-life balance, promote inclusivity, and provide a beautiful workspace where your unique perspective is truly cherished. Joining Smashing Boxes means joining a company that not only encourages your professional development but also actively engages with the community.

Working as a UI/UX designer at Smashing Boxes offers an exciting and dynamic career path, but it's essential to be aware of a few potential challenges. With a demanding workload and diverse client expectations, designers must stay adaptable and manage client feedback effectively. The fast-paced nature of the industry means rapid project evolution, occasionally requiring designers to pivot quickly. While remote work opportunities may be limited, the focus on collaboration and teamwork can make up for it. Designers may sometimes feel pressure to maintain high-quality standards, but the rewarding experience of contributing to impactful projects and honing their skills in this innovative environment more than outweighs these challenges.

This place is a springboard for bigger and better opportunities. You'll have plenty of opportunities when you decide to leave SB (probably within the year). HUGE pro is that recruiters will start blowing up your LinkedIn the second you start working at SB, knowing that you will want to be out of there soon.

As much as I wanted to like SB, this place is TOXIC, and the rest of the design/dev community in the triangle knows it. I wish I had listened to the people who warned me before taking this job. Right from your initial HR phone call, you will be mislead. You'll hear things like "We're in a period of exciting change" or "We are in the process of pivoting" when really it's just that the majority of the company has quit because of the dishonesty, bad management, impossible project timelines, and non-existent project budgets and HR is scrambling to hire new people. Note: This isn’t a COVID thing, this is an every 6 months type of thing at SB. You'll also hear "major turnover is in the nature of this type of industry," but the longer you work at SB the more you realize everything is just smoke and mirrors. If you are looking for strong leaders to teach you and guide you, look elsewhere.