Super Corporate and Top-Down Culture
Pros
- Decent opportunities for advancement. Was promoted several times with a 2-year span. - Fun work environment - Good work-life balance. Solid 9-5, Monday through Friday.
Cons
- Culture of leadership making design decisions based off personal opinions. Little empowerment for design team to make decisions, even if our decisions were backed by research and user-testing. - Projects often felt like busy work.. making prototypes for leadership to show off and claim as "their next big idea", but then never seeing that idea get built. - Designers split into Agile streams completely derailed innovation or any forward thinking. Such narrow focus on quick wins, rather than true innovation. - Projects and priorities were shifted too often. - Corporate culture is a buzzkill. Everything feels so rigid. - Business focuses too much on TV show. Doesn't prioritize eCommerce, apps, or new tech.
