Great teams but poor management and constant layoffs - UX Designer Bounteous Employee Review

3.0
May 5, 2026
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Pros

Great teams of wonderful people and knowledgeable people trying their best in a messy system.

Cons

Over the last 5 years, they have conducted mass layoffs once a year, leaving the remaining staff to manage the workload. Leadership is non-existent; they claim there is a company culture, but it is long dead, and all that is left is managers talking in circles and a staff that is totally burned out with no support. Managers have no teeth and do not advocate for their staff; all roads lead to a dead end. Very few, if any, promotions; every year, leadership just moves the promotion/raise goal post, and it's just one endless loop of "you're doing so great, just keep it up" They claim to be remote first, and you won't have to work outside your time zome, but thats a lie, you will get staffed on anything and everything and with the expantion into India that means you are expected to work overlapping hours, which is crazy when you consider the masive difference in timezones across North America and how they (don't) pair well with the Indian timezone. My list goes on and on about poor pay structure and a reduction in benefits that are now not only crap but also difficult to actually use/access. An HR department that tries to gaslight you when you have an actual concern or complaint that should be dealt with (or just actually lies to you). And clients leaving/pulling contracts left, right, and centre.

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5.0
May 14, 2025
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Pros

Wonderful culture Good pay Good work life balance

Cons

Merged with accolite and need more structure to make decisions

2.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

There are some good projects to work on, many clients who want to do cutting edge work and you might get to work on one. Still a lot of good people and remnants of culture from before the merger with Accolite flattened everything. Good PTO policy for those in North America.

Cons

Terrible at change management. The concept barely exists. They often defer raise cycles if budgets aren’t on target so if you work hard and keep your account on track you don’t get rewarded. The last raise cycle was Q1 2025 and there was supposed to be another in Q3 ‘26 but it’s been moved to maybe in Q3. This was after the same thing happened in ‘24 after being told that there would be two raise/promotion cycles a year. Can’t trust leadership to set a budget that includes raises, even after a year of growth in ‘25 no raises in ‘26. Most of the workforce is in India so if you are in the western US you will be expected to start your day by 7am, and HR is always scheduling “North America” trainings at 7am PT. If you are in India you are pretty much expected to work until 9pm. EVERYTHING is AI but you can’t get access to tools and then you get notes for using too many tokens if you try to use it. No rollouts, no trainings, no one knows what’s going on. There is no bench so if your project ends and another doesn’t start right away you’ll get laid off.

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