Speck Design reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(20 total reviews)

Elisa Jagerson

69% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Speck Design has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 20 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Speck Design employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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20 reviews
5.0
Sep 14, 2016

Great projects and fun atmosphere

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pretty impressive range of projects. I've had the chance to work on new Google hardware, Apple retail environment, and future of mobility initiatives. And lots of robotics and computer vision technologies. The culture is unique -- supportive and quirky with a bit of rowdiness.

Cons

There are some growing pains with the FutureBrand acquisition.

5.0
Sep 12, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

I have worked at Speck for over a decade, and watched us grow from a small scrapy company to an impressive design firm. What I love most about Speck is the opportunity to work on amazing projects for very cool clients. We work with everyone one from big companies like Apple, Google, and Ford to exciting start-up with cutting edge technologies. The team here is very close and supportive of one another.

Cons

We are small, so don't have all of the infastructure a large company has. Now that we are owned by FutureBrand some of that infastructure is improving.

1.0
Aug 16, 2016

No longer a legit firm

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It has a name that it got from Speck Products but there is no connection anymore and there has not been for a long time.... There are good people here but there are at every company. Sadly they are not in leadership. There are some good clients but from a design and engineering perspective they are generally not very challenging. You will not get much in the way of portfolio work here.

Cons

Be very critical of some of the positive reviews. They smell of being shills especially the one right before this. Nobody would say this is the best company they had worked at unless it was the only one and even then I doubt that they would say that. The leadership has run this company into the ground. Just about 16 actual staff at the moment despite the faces on the site. We tend to keep names up long after the people have left. The CEO has never run a service company and it shows. She is a smart, friendly person but has many blind spots and tends to grab onto any new idea without any follow through. There is zero depth of understanding of design and engineering. She makes wild promises to clients and to staff that she cannot back up. She is not trusted by staff, even those who like her personally. It is a sad state of affairs.... The acquisition did not change much. Morale is very low.

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