Overworked, Underpayed and Underappreciated - Avis employé Conceptual Designer CDC Designs

- Pay is not competitive within the industry and raises are minimal. - Hours are not flexible and PTO is TERRIBLE. - Deadlines can be unreasonable and management has no clue how to do half the required tasks and therefore have no idea how long things really take, resulting in incredibly long and exhausting days ON A REGULAR BASIS. You are paid overtime but after a while your time and lack of work life balance are not worth the overtime - The HR of the company is a partner which is incredibly ethically questionable and she has horrible interpersonal skills and clearly has the company’s interest in mind and not the employee’s - Each of the design leads have different views on how things should be done leaving employees confused on the requirements and standards for each project - One of the design leads, Julie, is so busy she hardly participates in the early design process leaving the designers and project managers to guess their way through the design process only to be made to feel like an idiot when it’s reviewed by her because it wasn’t what she wanted, leaving you with a mountain of work to fix the project in a very short amount of time - The other design lead, Lisa, is known for her blow ups and chewing people out regularly. I’ve personally seen her make designers cry. You never know which version of her will show up to a meeting and she wants to review things but then is too busy to so you’ll either get chewed out because you didn’t show her something or chewed out because she doesn’t have time to review your stuff. Again, you never know which version you’re going to get that day. Any small mistake is also turned into defcon 5 by her so beware, even if you stay till midnight the night before something is due and forget something because you were clearly sleep deprived and overworked, the one thing you missed will be the one thing that gets focused on. Don’t expect a thank you for working three 16 hour days in a row to get it done. Just expect a lecture on what you could’ve done better.