VSA Partners, LLC reviews

VSA is a design firm first and foremost, and it does design well. However, it is a predominantly white agency that promotes a particular type of personality: extroverted, opinionated, and quick to judge. If you do not have these characteristics, you will not thrive here. Characteristics like introversion, thoughtfulness, deliberateness are not welcomed, particularly in the San Francisco office. The company does not make it a priority to address issues like unconscious biases, nor does it take into consideration the fact that cultural backgrounds come into play when shaping an employees' way of interacting with people or solving challenges.

- Lack of transparency in the health of the company or how the it operates. CEO will claim business is doing great and then a round of layoffs will happen weeks later - Semi-annual layoffs that only target low/mid level employees, never partners or people who are actually responsbile for lost accounts and clients - Zero diversity in senior management. Company did not value or even think about a diverse workforce until very recently - Agency is extremely top heavy and bloated - People who have worked their whole careers at VSA only see one way of doing things, have no other work experience to draw from aside from how things were done at the company in the past - Promotions are rarely rewarded with no clear, identifiable path to move up in the organization