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Not Paid enough for the Amount of Work - Technical Illustrator Northern Virginia Graphics Employee Review

3.0
16 July 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good graphic design experience, you'll learn a lot. Clients you work with are really good. Healthcare offered, PTO and holidays paid, they might have 401ks now as well. Nice end of the year bonus. Managers and other employees are all nice people. We went remote during COVID, and that was great.

Cons

You will spend precisely 8 hours a day constantly producing work or else you will get fired. Zero flexibility in terms of hours. President isn't great. Unwilling to negotiate salary (starting at $15/hour), low pay for the sheer amount of work you do. He can't stay on subject when you're speaking to him, workaholic, hard time focusing. Will push back when you ask for time off. He blamed every single problem on the fact that we were working remotely. Usually communication b/w managers and President is good, but if something goes wrong he gets extremely upset. He loves to remind his employees that India is their biggest competitor and they only get paid $3/hour over there. His wife was in charge of HR, so it was never helpful to go to her with problems. They would brag every time they gave you $1/hour raise, like it was so much money.

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Pros

Open communication Helpful co-workers Listen to your own music

Cons

In office work required for new hires

1.0
28 Dec 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- learned some adobe illustrator techniques/shortcuts from peers - other illustrators are nice - the work is interesting if they give it

Cons

Every problem stems from the leadership/management of the company and their defective operations. The owner and his wife who are in charge are friendly when you start, but they have deep mistrust in their employees and are extraordinarily hypocritical. They are quick to place blame on illustrators for issues that should have been prevented or caught by management. The owner is immature, unprofessional, and comically difficult to communicate/work with. There is no training/onboarding that isn’t outdated, which creates issue after issue that could have been prevented. There are no job titles or official duties/responsibilities for any position in writing, which allows the owners to ask employees to do more than what they pay them for. Instead of investing in or listening to their workers/illustrators they blindly accuse them of lying or intentionally hurting the company which doesn’t make sense. This is also NOT a stable job. When the workload is light they will tell people to not clock in and unless you use pto you won’t be paid that day. Sometimes you could be not working for a whole week.

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