Designit reviews

2.6

24% would recommend to a friend

(254 total reviews)
avatar

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 Management & Beratung industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

254 reviews
1.0
Aug 6, 2025

"Leaders" who gaslight

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A few good people still exist here. But they're a dime a dozen

Cons

In 2022, the company was not performing well. In North America, they proceeded to hire a new suite of completely unqualified self-important narcisists to extremely bloated salaries under the auspices of an "investment" by Wipro. That new leadership regime made the quick assessment that the vast majority of the talent was no good and that the best way forward was to micro-manage and minimize anything that was ever uttered by that talent on the ground. They deployed a poorly-thought-through, but self-protecting action plan: First, they expected their mere presence would turnaround the business -- which of course it did not through a series of bold LinkedIn announcements. Second, they proceeded to blame the talent and began the first of many waves of layoffs. Third, they shamelessly updated the PTO policy to give themselves ("leaders") unlimted PTO (which they enjoy lavishly), and reduce the PTO of the remainder of team members from 20-25 days/yr to 16. The strategy boils down to -- we will only be successful with competitive top leadership talent, so we need to reward and retain them, but we have to admit we are a body shop and don't actually need to retain our workers. Several years later, the existing "leaders" still enjoy their fat paychecks (in the 200-300k+ range) and fancy titles. Nearly all top talent has left, completing the self-fulfilling prophecy of "we have bad people so we should treat them like incompetent goons they are".

1.0
Aug 1, 2024

For your own sanity don't work here

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Multicultural and diverse team - Fairly young and mixed team - Hybrid working

Cons

If you are working on the Microsoft account, you will be stressing and the workload you receive is not worth the salary that you'll be getting. Although you'll be working at the Microsoft Office, they will treat you like a second class employee because your badge is orange and you're a vendor instead of it being blue. If you are part of an underrepresented group you are basically facing double discrimination. The pay & benefits are not worth the amount of work you will be doing. On calls, people will dismiss whatever you say a lot fo the time and treat you different because your email address doesn't look the same as theirs even though your job is just as important as theirs. The 'client' will always push random agendas and workload onto you although the team is providing them with exceptional work and you will also be forced and scheduled into the office at random days for no reason and the manager will guilt trip you into going in on days you weren't meant to be scheduled in. They are trying to force 'collaboration' between you and the client, however once you're in the office you will all hardly interact with each other or it gets too noisy that you can't work. Although your region is probably the best in the company, there is no HR department, your manager will never take your feedback on board and always go back to 'it's what the company/client wants'. No progression and constant updates/changes in processes without being informed about anything. Also one of the 'clients' will constantly micro-manage your work and you can still get in trouble even though you are following what they told you to do. There is no career progression at all, if you take the role you'll be stuck there and yu won't get any pay rise or promotion until you find a new job. You will be engrained into the Microsoft culture, however you will stll be treated as a second class citizen and can't avail to many of their benefits or go to their events. It's literally always the employee's vs management. Made the most genuine friendships and met amazing people within the company, however the issue always falls back on management. My advice? Don't even bother working here for the 'experience' the job market is terrible but this one isn't worth stressing and not having work-life balance anymore.

1.0
Jun 13, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great designers at the individual contributor level. Hire them if they apply to your company!

Cons

Designit is keeping pace with the downward trajectory of the once-grand design consultancies.

Viewing 52 - 54 of 254 Reviews

Glassdoor has 310 Designit reviews submitted anonymously by Designit employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Designit is right for you.