Best experienced if you live in the city and are in your 20s - Designer Konrad Group Employee Review

4.0
Jun 4, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

THE GOOD: It's a great team, especially for younger members, since new grad hires are the primary recruiting source. You get to work on big brands, and you're typically working on exciting business challenges rather than marketing fluff. Speaking only from my experience on the design team, most of us didn't have to work a ton of overtime regularly. THE OK: The in-person experience is heavily emphasized. There are always fun things going on—from gaming to sports to live music. The downside is that not being seen at these events can be a knock against your future at the company. While it's a hybrid model now, more in-office time is the general trajectory. The largest team in size and influence is the tech team, especially since the founders have engineering backgrounds. Managers are doers. This means you can trust that they know what they're talking about, but your needs may have to take a backseat if they're heads-down on a project.

Cons

Managers don't receive substantial training, so employee experiences vary considerably. Again, these are super friendly people who are smart and good at what they do, but not all managers are equally ready to help their team members grow and thrive. Decisions are made from the top down, with the mindset that "a lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep."

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5.0
Dec 5, 2025
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Pros

Great leadership, smart and accomplished colleagues, interesting projects, and a very fun company culture.

Cons

Pay is not competitive for the industry or caliber of work.

2.0
Apr 12, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

-Great coworkers on the Associate Consultant, Consultant, and early manager levels -Thrown into the fire which means you learn a lot and gain new skills at a rapid pace -Reasonable hours/work-life balance

Cons

-Compensation is WELL below market rate, with no transparency on future salary increases or timelines. There are also no bonuses/performance based compensation despite significant discrepancies in employee workloads. -No HR department. Whenever employees are fired (which happens often and without notice) there is no source for employees to go to for questions/support. Similarly, if anything happens on a project that would require HR advice, there is nobody to go too. -Entry level employees are put onto projects without training or any knowledge expertise and expected to "figure it out" resulting in sub-optimal deliverables to the client and an overly-stressed day to day work environment -Upper level managers are unengaged on projects and individual team management. Some, also promote a toxic office social culture of gossiping about employees, creating a sense of discomfort among their team members -Client projects can be antiquated and you get no say on what you're assigned to or for how long you'll be on it

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