Design Group (MO) Reviews

Poor management. Anyone in management is too “busy” for their reports. All the onus for work is on the manager, until they can’t find toy projects. Then you’re on your own and lose money. No “client bonus” hours can be logged for remote work. All they do is staff augmentation. Terrible benefits for more than $500 a month. No upward movement unless you stick around for 10 years without making any noise about their unspoken fraud.

They more than doubled their staff during my time and seem to lost their way of Bob Chapman’s Everybody Matters and become more typical corporate politics. Don’t get stuck in the staff augmentation roles. They’re ok for short duration but after a while they lose site of what you can do and eventually fall into being a number and name on a page. They don’t fire, but it’s known that if your assignments get worse, they’re hoping you leave. Not really transparent and discussing that the paths are really in alignment. In the several months before and after my departure, I saw roughly 10 other people choose to depart which is much higher than I had seen in all my years prior. If you have good experience in industries outside their bread and butter, it’s very difficult to bring that in. Especially in major metropolitan areas that have wide industries beyond food/beverage and biosciences. The on-site bonus is nice but it’s pennies on the dollar if you work a lot of overtime (which isn’t compensated).