Great company but severely lacking in focus - Anonymous employee deviantArt Employee Review

2.0
Apr 28, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Excellent company culture with some of the smartest and most interesting colleagues you'll work with in your career. The people working here are truly inspiring individuals -- feels like family. Great office environment with good equipment, snacks, and fun times. Depending on which department you work in (ie, how much autonomy is left in that position), you may get the opportunity to do some really interesting work.

Cons

What's left of the good company culture is slowly dying out in favor of micromanagement, outdated methodologies, and poor communication. People keep their heads down now, instead of contributing to a creative environment. Most of my colleagues are very unhappy as compared to a year or two ago. DA fails to prioritize important projects over unnecessary ones. And those amazing people they hire? Most of their talents go to waste. Interesting work done is mostly thrown away or never implemented, which is probably why the site hasn't kept up with the times. Which brings us to the third major issue: The executives are insular and do not cooperate with each other. There's lack of cohesion, lots of talk, and not enough action. The newest upper management hires have been hit and miss. The final problem is that there's no infrastructure to support collaborative processes. Almost half the company is remote which means HQ doesn't benefit from their insights, while HQ employees have a different set of standards applied to them when it comes to hours. Everyone has their own way of doing things, which makes it nearly impossible to be efficiently productive. Edit: shortly after contributing this review, DA laid off roughly 25% of their employees.

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