Chaos from the top down - User Experience Designer Aviture Employee Review

1.0
Mar 17, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Some employees are still good friends

Cons

- No diversity in the workplace - Women are not respected - Refuse to listen to ideas that are not inline with their own. Even though one of the the company mantras is "challenge respectfully" - Archaic ideas of how development works - Company claims to be Agile and they are very much not - Water cooler decisions are made and gossip is the only way the team hears of it - Refuse to change products that are suffering in usability and congruency to a design system - Several people guiding processes are incredibly arrogant and unprofessional - Brag how UX drives development externally but internally they barely practice UX standards - The UX team play video games all day and know UX standards are non-existent but they get paid to simply get paid - Covid response was incredibly non-responsive and very inconsiderate - Teams are extremely exclusive and aren't making an effort to make new people feel welcome - No training or research tools to get to know the products, team history, or efforts. Butt team leads expect immediate knowledge and get upset when questions are asked

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Aviture Response
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We understand and appreciate your perspective. It isn’t unexpected to be upset with the situation, especially when you were on a Personal Improvement Plan (PIP) before you resigned - for not showing up to work, not completing work assigned and being disrespectful to others in the work environment. Your work history of being at places for a year or less probably contributed to the difficulty of transitioning into Aviture and making connections with longer term Aviturians. Aviture is harder than some places to on-ramp as we have very talented people with a lot of years of experience. It is something that we are always looking to improve upon and will take this feedback into consideration to continue to make the environment better for others. Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback.

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Cons

Mentorship is somewhat of a fledgling idea among many of the teams, and your first couple months may feel like a trial by fire. This is something being actively worked on, but it does still have a way to go.

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