All Bun and No Meat - Associate TVS Employee Review

1.0
8 Sept 2022
Recommend
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Pros

You receive a lot of experience when you work 80 hrs a week. Who needs sleep anyways?

Cons

Y’all. This is a company that, after laying of 40+ staff members during the covid pandemic, was convinced that it was essential to redesign their logo. Sounds logical. Let’s pay a principals nephew 100k to type out “TVS” in the Futura typeface, throw it in Illustrator, and pay for a supersized logo for the lobby. All the while the actual workforce is drowning trying to make up for the lost support. I guess what I’m trying to say is that the people in charge aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed or they just don't care about their workers. Pick your poison. I met many friends here, but TVS is a shell of what it once was. The people we needed to complete the work were laid off while upper management kept their 250k+ salaries. If you interview you will only find project managers that want to tell people what to do and interns that don’t know what to do. The meat of this burger is gone. You can either take that as an opportunity or a warning. Depends on how you want to look at life. BUT I personally guarantee that if you decide to join this firm as a mid-level designer it will be an uphill battle where you will be pressured into working 80hr weeks. You may want to factor that into your salary request.

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5.0
11 Apr 2025
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Pros

A great place to work, kind people and a friendly environment

Cons

Nothing at the moment...but things can always be better

2.0
26 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Nice views from the 28th floor. Occasional work-mandated fun was actually fun.

Cons

Nepotism and inexperienced staff. Constant ask of the IT department to perform actual architectural work. I was once told by HR to that they saw an unplugged lamp in the president's new office and to go fix it right away. The IT department has nothing to do with desk moving and lamps or anything that plugs in besides your laptop and occasionally a printer (which there's also a separate department for). Similar things happened multiple times. Eventually, a friend of a friend from someone higher up was brought in to gut the department, lie to everyone, and bring in her own staff. Progress! Parts of the marketing department are literally incapable of performing their jobs without extremely specific (and not good) hardware. Older staff is often entirely capable of basic computer functions like renaming files or copy/paste using shortcuts, meaning most of their time is spent doing essentially nothing of value. My experience was that the lower end staff was ALL overworked, the higher end staff had massive egos with a few notable exceptions, and the company was a huge listing ship thriving on occasional waves of income from mostly foreign projects which failed to ever materialize (though we did get paid).

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