IDEO Employee Reviews

IDEO is an impressively creative organization with amazing talent, that at times can be tough to navigate. The organization has withstood many changes over the past few years; learning, adapting, and revitalizing.

creative, human-centered, kind, fun, intelligent

Incredible people - the best. Incredible learning environment, and work opportunities. Only issue is salary and promotion pathways.

Great thinkers, great designers, great team projects.. great camaraderie

Have loved my first year so far! Lots of ups and downs, learning and mastering new skills (as I was fairly new to design and design thinking), navigating a large corporate ecosystem can be (first team over 50 for me!), and lots of understanding the good we want in the world.

horizontal, collaborative, creative, kind, competent

they use our own research methods on ourselves to see where we need to improve.

Thoughtful, aware, present, and they try to authentically live the mission, purpose and values while doing the best design they can.

incredibly thoughtful and intentional about company culture

The leadership team does not have a clue - about anything. CEO is lost. Marketing is so far off course. People trying to run the business are just long time employees who have never run a business before. Everyone just sits around waiting for the phone to ring.

Transparency and expectations. I get hiring competent people but not telling them what you want and getting upset when you don't get it is foolish.

USD to INR conversion, learning benefit

Our bonuses really reflect our performance as a company

Flexible working arrangements - I work from home at least once a week and can schedule appointments during the weekday.

base pay was reasonable I was underwhelmed by the bonus structure payout.

IDEO charges McKinsey rates for work done by teams making on average $150k per year. The company carries way, way, way too many people who do nothing all day but have been there forever.

low pay and professional opinion not respected

only issue is a lot of extroverts vying for attention. You have to shout to get noticed

salary is always the downside at IDEO

tbh they funny 10/10 but they dont listen

Diversity in ages, experiences, gender, LBGTQ, disciplines

I love my specific team within IDEO - they are a group of intelligent + diverse + funny humans that make working on hard word problems tenable.

amazing people, interesting backgrounds and fun to be with

Coworkers need to focus on efforts that drive revenue and not just compete to work on projects that are aiming to save the world. Nothing IDEO does will have that great an impact, so focus on driving high quality and high revenue work to support others in the company.

great empathetic people who try to help each other out vs. combative or overly competitive. the epitome of collaboration

This is the first place I've worked where team felt a bit like a support network - where there's grace around mistakes and failure, and my boss is actively giving me room to grow and pushing me when they think I should stretch myself to get to the next level.

It feels like a family, the team does a lot together and the experience team seeks to make it a fun place to work.

The process is rigorous but there is great care put into each step of evaluation. Company values: inclusivity, creativity, ability to handle oneself in ambiguous environments, empathy for others.

They've got to get back in touch with candidates quickly. Whole weeks would go by before I heard anything - and I actually ended up being one of the folx they hired!

teamwork! working on inventing whole new categories of services and products

No day is different. None of my days here have EVER looked the same - and that's the kind of thing that keeps things fun and challenging.

current leaders, they need to be replaced with competent, maybe newer generation people.