Designit reviews

2.6

24% would recommend to a friend

(255 total reviews)
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Keri Dawson

40% approve of CEO

14% positive business outlook

Designit has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 255 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Designit employee rating is 30% below average for employers within the Management e consulenza industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Aug 6, 2025

"Leaders" who gaslight

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Pros

A few good people still exist here. But they're a dime a dozen

Cons

In 2022, the company was not performing well. In North America, they proceeded to hire a new suite of completely unqualified self-important narcisists to extremely bloated salaries under the auspices of an "investment" by Wipro. That new leadership regime made the quick assessment that the vast majority of the talent was no good and that the best way forward was to micro-manage and minimize anything that was ever uttered by that talent on the ground. They deployed a poorly-thought-through, but self-protecting action plan: First, they expected their mere presence would turnaround the business -- which of course it did not through a series of bold LinkedIn announcements. Second, they proceeded to blame the talent and began the first of many waves of layoffs. Third, they shamelessly updated the PTO policy to give themselves ("leaders") unlimted PTO (which they enjoy lavishly), and reduce the PTO of the remainder of team members from 20-25 days/yr to 16. The strategy boils down to -- we will only be successful with competitive top leadership talent, so we need to reward and retain them, but we have to admit we are a body shop and don't actually need to retain our workers. Several years later, the existing "leaders" still enjoy their fat paychecks (in the 200-300k+ range) and fancy titles. Nearly all top talent has left, completing the self-fulfilling prophecy of "we have bad people so we should treat them like incompetent goons they are".

1.0
Jul 2, 2025

Proceed with Caution

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Pros

The people are great. Leadership is not.

Cons

If you’re a creative, strategist, or design practitioner considering a role at Designit, I strongly urge you to reconsider — especially in light of their recent policy shift that ties utilization directly to performance. While this may sound like a standard metric on paper, it’s a deeply flawed approach for anyone working in the creative or consulting space. Utilization is not always within the control of individual team members — especially when project availability, resourcing decisions, or client delays are dictated by leadership. Holding people accountable for billable hours when there’s no billable work available is not only demoralizing, it’s bad business and worse ethics. What’s more troubling is the context: Designit’s parent company, Wipro, is known for erratic management, poor communication, and treating people as headcount, not talent. This new “performance” policy appears to be a thinly veiled attempt to quietly push people out without calling it a layoff. By doing this, Wipro/Designit can avoid triggering the WARN Act, skip severance, and potentially limit unemployment payouts — all while framing it as individual underperformance. This is not how a true creative agency treats its people. It’s how a corporation in decline shields itself from legal and financial responsibility. There are plenty of firms out there that value craft, collaboration, and culture — this just isn’t one of them anymore.

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