Add-black Reviews

3.5

48% would recommend to a friend

(12 total reviews)

51% positive business outlook

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12 reviews
1.0
13 Mar 2025
Recommend
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Pros

It's a job (if they're actually hiring and not fishing for free interview project/test work.)

Cons

I've interviewed with them twice in the last 7 years. The first time they were just fishing for what I was designing at a different company that also licenses to Target. They barely even looked at my materials or asked me about my experience as a Designer. I felt super uncomfortable and didn't share any info about what my current company was designing for the current seasons. The second time I interviewed was years later. They ghosted in the middle of the unpaid design test after I turned in most of my materials. Should've known better than to interview again but I thought that maybe they had changed in the years that had passed. And my other friends, that are fashion designers, warned me to stay away from this place.

2.0
27 July 2023

Well.....

Recommend
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Pros

Some good people. Not very smart people but good people.

Cons

The only way you're going to make it there is if you worship Summer. She doesn't like to be challenged and a completely narcissist. I felt prejudice and racism but with the nature of our society who knows.

1.0
4 Nov 2019

Run from this place.

Recommend
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Pros

The only pro is when the owners are out of town and not in the office, which is fairly often.

Cons

Where do I begin? - The owners of Add Black have absolutely no investment in their employees. - There is no room for growth and the company does not do annual reviews of any kind. - They hire and fire people without any consideration for the employees whatsoever. They clearly do not know how to manage their financials, hence the hiring and firing. - The healthcare and benefits are definitely lacking (there is no dental or vision and their regular coverage is very limited). - The owner is extremely micro-managing and difficult to work with. She shows up late everyday and sometimes just doesn't come to the meeting that she scheduled, not to mention a meeting that makes you work 12-14 hour days, then just skips it. - They care more about taking lavish 'shopping' trips to Europe, Australia and South America more than taking care of their employees and making sure they can actually afford to keep the employees they hire. - Every project and assignment is thrown together last minute so each team is working until 10pm or weekends to finish before a sales/design meeting.

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