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Do You Know What Salary Means? - CAD Drafter Design CATAPULT Employee Review

2.0
19 Jul 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Great co workers, very skilled and focused. Good team work among employees. Really good projects with little repetitiveness. Overall cheerful attitude between all employees despite sitting in a large room with no windows nor airflow all day.

Cons

The company is run by a positional leader with a "Do as I say" attitude. The main focus is questionable hourly billing and up charging customers, even to the extent of misdirecting, prolonging projects or sacrificing quality. Salaried employees are required to clock in and out and those hours are closely monitored. It is common practice to dock pay for hours missing without the ability to make up for those hours -and it is not at all uncommon to have work that extends past normal working hours and sometime weekends. For a short period, employee bathroom breaks were being timed and scrutinized. Employees have been said to be replaceable and there is high turn over, thus resulting in poor growth and clerical organization. 66% attrition rate during my time employed. Every employees (present and questionably not present) salary information and social numbers are easily accessible by anyone accidentally opening the wrong server folder, including temporary employees. Mostly everyone is underpaid and the owner creates a carrot on a string environment. Lastly, various racial and sexist slurs and stereotypes occasionally dropped by the owner such as women being weak or "don't make it hard to read, Chinese people already have squinty eyes"

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5.0
16 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

I loved my time at Design Catapult. I learned so much from my very talented coworkers. The industrial design team is the best I have ever worked with, They are practically engineers themselves. And the engineers have years of experience and have brilliant solutions to complex design problems. The team is very collaborative and supportive of each other. There's no politics or competition.

Cons

Wide range of projects, So you're always playing catch up on new sciences and technologies. No hybrid working options.

5.0
27 Jun 2025
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Real design work, I prototype all my own designs. I'm left to manage my own projects with a lot freedom in how I approach design problems.

Cons

Sudden emergencies, frequent priority changes. Flat hierarchy, nowhere to be promoted to.

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