The best career choice I made! - Senior Designer bei DesignMap: Mitarbeiterbewertung

Diversity of projects give great variety and experience with many domains, products, and working relationships. Company treats all employees like family and really cares about their mental health. Excellent place to practice and grow multiple design methods and skills while managing clients. Great people all around. Great client partnerships in general.

Given the variety of projects, some are great (fascinating space, great partnerships/collaborators, clear direction) while others are not (difficult stakeholders, ambiguity, unclear definition/measures of success). But that's the nature of agency work. Some people aren't cut out for it. Working remote at an agency is hard. Difficult to leverage collective expertise of the studio and form tangential (out of project) relationships, but they're doing their best to account for that. Sometimes hard to take a breath due to booming demand. Workload can vary dramatically week to week, project to project.

DesignMap has high expectations — for design, as well as your overall character. If you enjoy a wide range of design challenges, working with talented contributors,m a variety of clients, it’s a great place to learn design thinking and sharpen your skills. Designers have opportunities to work on everything from strategy to research, conceptual thinking to execution and implementation. The company is constantly evolving and seeking to improve. Leadership is listening, and cares about what you have to say. DesignMap is making huge strides toward improving career development, and it incorporates employee feedback along the way. Overall, DesignMap is like a tight-knit family. Your coworkers become more like close family members, and they always have your back.

With such a tight-knit culture, it makes parting ways difficult. Some people take it personally, but ultimately people at DesignMap have your best interest in mind. Since personal career growth and coaching have been a constant evolution at the company, it can be difficult to know where you stand as a designer, and how to receive feedback. Promotions are awarded inconsistently and seemingly at random, which makes it difficult to grow as an individual long-term.