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  • Website www.ideo.com
  • Industry Design
  • Locations PaLo Alto, CA
  • Founded 1991
  • Size 501 to 1,000 employees
  • Salary -

IDEO is a design company known for its human-centered, interdisciplinary approach. Committed to creating a positive impact through design, IDEO helps clients and customers worldwide build the capacity and outcomes needed to solve their complex challenges and lead their markets. As a community of designers, entrepreneurs, engineers, teachers, researchers, and more, the company aims to drive change, build new ventures, and design digital and tangible experiences to help the world’s organizations cultivate the confidence that they need to solve their challenges.

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“Works for you if you know how to work the system”

Verified User Current Employee · v****** · UX Design Lead - Jan 25, 2022

ProsIDEO can be an incredible stepping stone if you’re able to see it as temporary. The IDEO name opens doors (and much fatter pay checks) once you’re ready to leave.

Connections with individuals can be great - I’ve found when you connect with the right people here they’re invested in your success - not your success at IDEO. So they’ll help you make the next step.

I see it as a grad school. It’s about the networking, getting your feet wet, setting yourself up for the next bigger move, and dipping as soon as you’ve got your fill.

ConsComp makes me feel actively disrespected. This is 80% of the pain I feel towards IDEO, and exacerbates every other negative sentiment I feel.

Promotions are all about who you know and how likable you are - they’re currently working to change this. TBD on its success.

Work can feel questionable ethically at times. You have some degree of option to not work on them, but every company is kind of evil. A little unavoidable.

How work is getting scoped in the past year is “more for less” — less time, less resources, less seniority in the team, and delivering the world to the client. It helps us sell work but at the cost of rapidly losing designers to burn out.

All your work will be under heavy NDA. Portfolios are doable but you have to be careful.

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