High School All Over Again - Designer DLR Group Employee Review

- If you are not one of their favorites, you will be targeted for entertainment and lose opportunities in your career due to their personal feelings and beliefs about you. - Culture shifted once new leadership came in over a year ago and started “enforcing” new rule for their discipline that did not align with DLR culture. - Leadership encourages a hostile work environment by stirring up drama and targeting certain employees. I have never seen so many employees crying and cornered in an aggressive manner. If you do not agree with them, they will make your life horrible both personally and career wise. Keep head down and shut up is the mentality you have to have to survive. - HR does not sit in the Dallas office and that means leadership has to play telephone when anything is reported. The message gets watered down and certain leaders do not keep confidentiality when telling what was reported resulting in unnecessary drama. - DLR is associated with an organization that is not morally aligned with their values. They had a large uproar from employees due to being employees owned. We were told that “we have made our choice, now it is time to make yours”by leadership. When people did, offices fired or made people feel uncomfortable to stay if they did not agree with continuing work with this organization. - Discrimination is very high in the Dallas office. Prepare the be sexualized and/or discriminated against if you don’t look like the common white man or woman. Uncomfortable comments, looks and micro/major aggression will be shown. - Leadership says that culture is vital to the Dallas office but don’t try to contribute to it. (Unless you consider getting drunk in the office at 3pm with leadership and gossiping about coworkers then this is the fit for you.) You don’t get out what you put in. The office favorites will steal your idea, after mocking and criticizing your idea, and claim it as their own and be celebrated for it. - The only way to move up here is to bring others down and dull their light while boosting leadership’s ego. If you have talent or show you care, you will be worked to the bone with no overtime pay and no recognition while those who gossip and create a toxic culture are promoted and celebrated. Truly feels like a high school drama in the worst way in the Dallas office. - Compensation conversations are unprofessional and not official. Raises/bonuses not written down, only told verbally told, and those who are favorites are paid more. Pay is well below average, especially for the amount of work you will be doing. - Your voice will be silenced if you speak up and continue to speak up after you are gone.