Designit reviews

2.6

26% would recommend to a friend

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Keri Dawson

51% approve of CEO

19% positive business outlook

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2.0
Oct 28, 2025
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Pros

Designit Seattle once stood out as a creative company that empowered its staff to be bold and push boundaries. The team delivered smart, effective solutions across the tech industry and thrived in a culture that valued collaboration, curiosity, and innovation. The real strength of the Seattle office was its middle management and the individuals in the trenches. They carried the weight of the work, built trusted client relationships, and kept projects moving with professionalism and pride. Compensation and benefits were competitive, with a solid salary structure, good health insurance, and a 401(k) match.

Cons

Executive leadership has no idea how to lead. They stifle talented people through constant micromanagement and misplaced priorities. What they call “innovation” is simply another process built to mask their lack of understanding of the market and their inability to drive new business. Over time, I watched talented individuals who delivered high-impact results and strong revenue growth either leave or get pushed out. Leadership has known for years that their reporting and infrastructure are broken. Instead of empowering the internal experts who could have fixed the problems, they decided to handle it themselves, only to discover that it does not work. The result is all smoke and mirrors. If you believe in saying yes to everything, even when it is not what the client needs or what serves the company best, you will fit right in. Otherwise, keep your resume ready and your applications active.

1.0
Aug 6, 2025

"Leaders" who gaslight

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Pros

A few good people still exist here. But they're a dime a dozen

Cons

In 2022, the company was not performing well. In North America, they proceeded to hire a new suite of completely unqualified self-important narcisists to extremely bloated salaries under the auspices of an "investment" by Wipro. That new leadership regime made the quick assessment that the vast majority of the talent was no good and that the best way forward was to micro-manage and minimize anything that was ever uttered by that talent on the ground. They deployed a poorly-thought-through, but self-protecting action plan: First, they expected their mere presence would turnaround the business -- which of course it did not through a series of bold LinkedIn announcements. Second, they proceeded to blame the talent and began the first of many waves of layoffs. Third, they shamelessly updated the PTO policy to give themselves ("leaders") unlimted PTO (which they enjoy lavishly), and reduce the PTO of the remainder of team members from 20-25 days/yr to 16. The strategy boils down to -- we will only be successful with competitive top leadership talent, so we need to reward and retain them, but we have to admit we are a body shop and don't actually need to retain our workers. Several years later, the existing "leaders" still enjoy their fat paychecks (in the 200-300k+ range) and fancy titles. Nearly all top talent has left, completing the self-fulfilling prophecy of "we have bad people so we should treat them like incompetent goons they are".

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