Before even knowing about Integral Group I've been warned to not work for Integral!
That should have been the first red flag. In general I agree with other posts here. The pay is low. They have a high turnover rate. No bonusses.
My personal experience:
I am an individual that gets excited to be around other people but the first day when I walked into the office there were this weird vibe. People were friendly but I got the feeling not many people were actually happy. There was a certain coldness in the air I couldn't really explain at that point. There were exciting and interesting projects that I really enjoyed working on but my manager had this style where nothing is ever good enough. It got to a point where I got anxious just to do anything and feared having to face him to get any feedback on projects. It felt like nothing positive ever came from speaking with him. If you are reading this you might think maybe I was just really bad at doing my job. That's what I started thinking. However, every once in a while I got roped into another project with another team and its as if all this anxiety just disappeared. Feedback were constructive, affirmation was given and it just felt right. Giving me some confidence back as a designer.
After about a year I could see my own morale taking a dip. I just was not myself anymore. The happy high energy individual that walked into the office a year ago excited about the new opportunity were now just fading away and I could see similar traits developing in myself as how I observed other people when I first walked into the office. I became distant, started doubting my own confidence and got anxious just going into the office in the mornings.
After two years I reached my breaking point. I left Integral to go work for another company and its been 3 months now and everything just feels normal again.
I have to add that this was my personal experience at Integral Group. Some teams actually really do seem nice to work for.
