Konrad Group reviews

You've heard it before - your experience at Konrad is luck of the draw based on the project you’re on and the Manager on your project. You’re going to be overworked and underpaid, and the excuse is that, “Konrad is a young, fun agency with cool projects.” I would take that with a grain of salt! Most everything I worked on was quite dull. I mentioned in my pros list that I learned a lot in a short period of time. This is true! And I do want to acknowledge that my experience at Konrad helped me get to where I am today. However, throughout my time at Konrad, I got put in a position where I was taking the hit on everything (Manager not providing necessary support and then coming down on me weekly for not doing enough when they regularly missed meetings that I was running, Managers switching around, Managers quitting and then being asked to “step it up” without additional pay, Design Lead not supporting their team, and being forced into keeping everyone in good spirits so as to not come across as sloppy/unprofessional to the client). It was a bit chaotic at times, and I got burnt out quickly. But the experience helped me identify what to look for / what not to look for in future positions and for that, I am thankful!

Most of the projects are really bad or offer almost 0 value to your career. I agree that you can always learn even from those experiences, but it feels horrible to dedicate hours of work in tasks and areas that are boring, meaningless or even far from what your area is (Like a Dev working as a QA for months). The culture might feel a bit overwhelming for people who are not used to or interested in social events. The problem with what I mentioned above is that promotions are based on two things: 1. If you are starting as an intern, they are going to promote you, probably just to make you feel better. 2. And the most important one, if your superiors like you. It all feels based on this, there are several comments mentioning it, and I can confirm it. They are progressively trying to bring people back to the office, showing that they did not learned anything from the pandemic. The strategy mentioned about mostly hiring interns is true. Like I never saw a senior being hired, just new and fresh college graduates or really young people. So you can be replaced in doing a boring tasks in a horrible project by any other new and naive intern, I guess they see it that way. Your feelings and mental health are not the priority, money is. But I guess this is a rule in a lot of places, that's how this world works... sadly.