Cold and soulless workshop machine - Anonymous employee Doblin Employee Review

1.0
19 July 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Being a part of Deloitte means you get projects with good budgets, and that's always nice. There's time to work through ideas and do them well.

Cons

They teach clients about empathy but there is no place that lacks more empathy than Doblin London. The management are so busy so they have no time (or interest) to support and build teams and great culture. They have their own agenda to become partner or director. Everyone else can just sort out their own lives. It's impossible to actually innovate at Doblin since they have a firm way of working. That's the only way but funny enough, they won't tell you what that way is. You just have to figure it out through trial and error which is a huge waste of time. The lack of trust and support means that many team members are heavily under-utilised whilst the trusted people are overworked. There is no culture and and nobody cares about anyone but themselves. I wouldn't even recommend this to my worst enemy.

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5.0
29 June 2021
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
28 Jan 2019
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Pros

- Doblin’s projects, budgets and clients are of a very high caliber and have the potential to result in great work. I’ve never had opportunities such as these to work on projects that truly have a global and meaningful impact. - Huge opportunity for designers to learn a more strategy focused approach - Amazing opportunities to collaborate with other areas of Deloitte in cross-functions deliveries (and I’ve seen these do well), and learn cross-functional skills in the process

Cons

- No culture or community (we don’t have any space, time, budget or commitment to create a community. Most people work remotely Mon-Thurs and from home in Fri) - ~70% travel (this is often BAU travel 3-4 days a week regardless of any real need for relocation) - Hours range from project to project but when travelling most people work 9am till midnight with 1-2 hours for dinner - No room for progressive or innovative thinking due to under-scoping of time and resources on projects. The project sweat-shop model is not conducive to creating good, innovative human centred design work

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