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Pros: The fellow designers, and creative directors are the best part of the company.

Cons: Do not waste your time here because you too will realize you'll need to start the application process right back up again. -Out of touch administration micromanagement and impulsive emotional decision making. Shady business and finance practices. -Pay cuts that gatekeep a percentage of pay behind insincere/fake positive engagement online (social media and reviews here...). -Requirements to have camera on all day so it's not (remote) as advertised, it's actually (digitally in office). -Recent reduction of allowed days off. -Considerable churn and burn turnover. Even new hires don't stay for more than a few months after they learn how little the value of the employees is considered. *Respect for long standing/high performing/loyal employees is not reciprocated. Even the 'star designers' of the company are quietly discarded after the emotional outbursts the CEO has as a reaction to dissatisfaction of the company and its policies. -Pay is not competitive and is continually getting pinched more and more to make up for failing sales practices and client mismanagement. -Inconsistent or nonexistent communication about policy changes. Employees are expected to inefficiently reach out directly with specific questions they have instead of admins answering common questions publicly. *Several employees were fired for professionally asking common clarifying questions in slack. -Employees are swapped on and off client assignments without notice or regard for project planning or client relations. -Promotions are considered with calculations from peer review scores and the abysmal math behind the calculations lead to a stalling of promotion progress as you work longer at the company. -Training, if any, is exclusively AI based with the rare exception of one design fundamentals training that the employees had to beg for. *If tech was good enough, Designity would be fully staffed by AI agents who would be the perfect employees. According to the CEO, his staff are a bunch of lazy complainers who are stealing money from the company by stealing time (working efficiently and quickly means you're a liability because you didn't 'work' for every minute of the workday). -No program support even for full time employees. You will need to pay for any and everything you do for work even with a W-2 contract. -None of the admins understand what it takes to actually do the job efficiently and consistently. *Design work is tracked by the hour no matter the project type or designer working on it. Every single creative and creative director I've worked with for the past few years either has left, been fired, or has applications out to leave as soon as possible. I am blessed to be free of this toxic relationship.

Pros: Individual CDs and Creatives are talented and hardworking, often supporting each other in the absence of proper leadership.

Cons: If you are considering joining this company, please think very carefully. I strongly recommend staying away. Management team treats employees as disposable labor. There is no respect, no trust, and no basic professionalism. If leadership sees this review, they will probably say it was written by a competitor. But if that were true, how would a competitor know so many internal details? Many people inside the company are fully aware that a large portion of the positive Glassdoor reviews are fake. The company simply does not have that many new Creative Directors or creatives joining. The reviews are clearly written to inflate the rating and create a false image. Starting in early 2025, the company introduced a series of new policies. I understand the desire to track progress, but the execution was extreme and humiliating. Employees were required to stay in Kumospace for 7-8 hours a day with cameras on. This level of micromanagement directly contradicts the “work from anywhere anytime” promise used during hiring. More importantly, internal teams regularly speak to Creative Directors in a disrespectful and condescending way. We were told to “be obedient” and “admit mistakes” instead of asking questions. Below are some examples from my own experience. 1. Creatives under my supervision were reassigned without my consent. New creatives were assigned with no context, forcing us to spend significant extra time explaining projects from scratch. 2. There is no real training or talent development process. No onboarding structure, no growth support. Employees are clearly treated as temporary labor to be used and discarded. 3. Promotion rules look clear and transparent on paper. In reality, when promotion time arrives, new conditions suddenly appear. Even employees who met the required scores were rarely promoted. 4. A creative once asked a neutral question about a new policy in the general channel. There was no attack or disrespect. Management reacted with anger and fired the person the same day. The general channel was immediately locked so no one could speak. 5. Many CDs left voluntarily due to dissatisfaction and provided proper notice. Management failed to use the four week notice period for proper handover. I was assigned to new projects only one daya before deadlines, forcing rushed transitions and extra unpaid effort. 6. The company also provides no professional software support. There is no access to basic tools such as Adobe, Figma, or stock image libraries. Employees are expected to pay out of pocket for required software in order to meet client expectations. This list could go on. To anyone considering joining, ask yourself if you are willing to work in an environment that exploits and disrespects its people. I also strongly encourage clients to reconsider working with this company. There is a serious honesty issue. The company claims on its website that everyone is US hired. This is simply false. After massive turnover last year, most new hires are from South America or Europe. This directly contradicts their own marketing and is misleading. Salaries are extremely low, around 25 percent of industry standards, far below what the website claims. Combined with the new policies, no qualified US based talent would accept these conditions. I am relieved to have left this toxic environment. Several former colleagues wish they could completely erase this experience/company from their resumes and LinkedIn profiles because they do not want to be contacted or associated with it ever again.

Pros: Hitting targets feels like a team effort, not a solo grind. I very much enjoy the digital office and almost redesign my office once a month for fun. The level of creativity is pretty amazing for the way we do things which I enjoy a lot.

Cons: Honestly, nothing big. Sales is always a bit intense, but here it feels manageable because you’re not doing it alone.