PDD Reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(20 total reviews)

68% positive business outlook

PDD has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 20 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PDD employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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20 reviews
1.0
29 Dec 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pros?? Not much really... Good location if you want to live in London.

Cons

PDD lies on the budget end of consultancies offering clients a cheaper alternative to more prestigious organisations. The company is struggling to keep afloat financially and resorts to desperate smoke-and-mirror tactics like hiring in people just for the day when clients visit to make them look bigger than what they really are. Extremely greedy partners rely on opportunistic money-grabbing off clients and are not particularly concerned about delivering the best quality. It’s a very well known fact that staff are underpayed and staff turnover is high- it’s essentially a revolving door, one-in one-out. Projects timelines are intentionally miscalculated to create the impression that more can be delivered in a shorter duration which results in shockingly sloppy work and an unwritten expectation that staff should work for long hours and in panic mode. It’s an ok place for the short term until you find somewhere better.

3.0
12 Jan 2026

Really poor management

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Opportunities to work on some amazing projects with big clients. Amazing workshop capabilities and some great people.

Cons

Blatant bullying from senior management is commonplace and no one bothers/cares to steps in to stop it, despite multiple complaints.

4.0
6 Aug 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- One of the only product-design consultancies in London that offer Engineering as one of their services - There was a great team culture when I was employed there - There was a decent variety of short term projects - In-house workshop (rare for London) that employees could use freely - Great "can-do" attitude amongst the staff - Direct line of communication to management if desired - Some allowance for personal development

Cons

- Very stretched Technical Team (resource-wise AND "hard" skills-wise) puts a heavy burden on individuals to get projects over the line - Not much New Business Development and heavy reliance on a few big clients for most of the company's revenue is quite a stressful environment to work in - Odd focus and spending of resource on internal projects which don't appear to have any benefit for the wider company (not particularly good for upskilling or generating marketing materials) - There is some disconnection / disjointedness in experience of "how things are going" between management and resource / workers

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PDD Response
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Hi there, thank you so much for taking the time to review your experience at PDD!
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