Great place to work, but suffering from perhaps too rapid growth - Frontend Developer DEPT Employee Review

4.0
Jul 1, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Well structured organisation - Projects are very well managed - Colleagues are lively, fun to talk to and very professional in what they do. - Average age is quite low, attributing to the point above. - Lot of knowledge with some very knowledgable people in key positions. - Always room for personal growth - Management is watchful for overtime, and prefers to adjust the planning/scope than burning out developers.

Cons

- A lot of working pressure, you need to be able to manage this. If you can it's nice to work with a fast pacing team. - The original culture is slowly dying out. It's not dead yet, there's still fun activities some times but the busy office days with afterwork drinks on thursday or friday are completely gone. Not of a lack of trying from organisors but people rather stay at home apparently. - The yearly parties are being postponed or cancelled, due to economic downturn. Further killing the original DEPT culture.

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5.0
Dec 11, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of individuals that make up many teams from design, copy, motion, production artists, and even full-time strategists.

Cons

I left right before a big merge, so I can't speak to how it is after the merge. This review may be outdated.

1.0
May 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The design team is very talented and kind.

Cons

Very boring agency to work at. They only claim the agency is not doing good, "we don't have money" so no raises, 1.2% merit increases this year. This doesn't even keep up with inflation rate. At this company you will just be a number on a spreadsheet, waiting to get laid off because they would rather use a million different AI than hire any entry level positions. They fail almost every pitch because the leadership is empty-headed, comes in and changes the entire concepts and decks. And they claim they are very transparent and B-corp but they discriminate against POC all the time and lie about your prospects at their company. It's really not worth your nerves to work for them.

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