Great people, great perks, great tech-oriented attitude - Senior Graphic Designer Brandboom Employee Review

One of the best reasons to work at Brandboom is that you are given the ability to actually use your job as a platform for what you want to learn. Yes, management sets a high standard for you to achieve. In my view, they do so for your benefit. They will also do whatever they can to help you achieve it as long as you have the motivation to learn and better yourself. All decisions are made objectively without ego based on the information that is available. This means that anyone can suggest something and ideas are freely / openly debated, and the best ones filter to the top. You also get to work with and learn from great people who actually care deeply about the product. Management is also pretty flexible with your schedule, so long as you demonstrate that you can work and deliver without much oversight.

If you're not motivated or proactive and just want a chill job... you probably won't be happy here.

-Flexible and understanding hours at times -Location in downtown (but, parking is 4 blocks away from office) -Benefits are 100% paid for -Shoes off policy (but was not disclosed, despite the abnormality) -Dog friendly

No matter how great your colleagues are and how well you all get along and work together, culture still stems from the top. With that being said, it is to be warned that the CEO is 'quite' the leader. As a service to job seekers and candidates who are considering employment here, I will disclose some red flags that I observed and unfortunately could not see come to fruition until I worked here. Here are the bullet points for you to judge for yourself: -The office is actually where the CEO and his significant other lives. This was not disclosed in the interview. It is a penthouse in a modern apartment. -CEO lacks emotional intelligence (you can see this as he is inapproachable, communicates poorly, condescending, awkward) and has a authoritarian management style. This is the only job he has had. He is smart, no doubt, but is hard to learn from and work with as he treats/views his employees as if they are beneath him. - COO is remote and in the east coast. She has great thought leadership but isn't in the office and isn't as able to resolve the day to day internal and operational issues that attribute to the toxic work environment that the CEO contributes to. -Everyone, outside of the sales/account management team, sits with their back facing the CEO. He sits in the center. -The business still feels like it is at its early start up stage. There are about 15 employees. -Lacks diversity. At the time I was there, the team was 100% Asians. -Lack of growth opportunities as it is a small business and they are struggling to grow but have goals to expand -Pays below market value if you are not a developer