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2.0
5 Mar 2023
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Pros

The best thing about DI is the employees or at least the few great people that remain. There are some extremely talented and dedicated people that make working at DI a great experience. They do offer great flexibility in working times and working remote and overall they have tried to adopt a fun company culture. They offer nice benefits like paid conferences and work from home as well as a fairly aggressive vestment option.

Cons

The executive team and management. DI has a 2 year burnout where they tend to churn through employees like crazy. Right now people are leaving in droves and those that have not left to double their salaries and halve their workload are trying to. They will work your butt off and pay you half your worth. This is not just bitter feelings they have LITERALLY admitted to instituting a policy to pay people "the low end of average". They use a outside software to calculate this and do not disclose these reports to anyone even much of the direct supervisors do not have access to what these outside consultants report. If you want even the smallest raise you have to campaign for sometimes years to get them and they are usually quite insulting. The longer you stay at DI the worse the pay gap gets. Absolutely no loyalty for long term employees and that's why it's rare for people to make it to five years. If you do happen to make it to 5 years look forward to arbitrarily being laid off with 0 notice. They literally just deleted an entire team of long term employees with 0 notice to anyone even people who were using them. They were blindsided in the morning and were already locked out by the afternoon and only one sterile email to explain their sudden departure. Absolutely shameful way to treat people. There is almost no promotion potential and they have instituted so many policies that focus entirely on profit margins and rewarding management over the workers. They will do surveys and say they are listening and then ignore the massive problems of unpaid overtime, dismal pay and 0 promotion options. Then still have the gall to beg people to vote for them as a great place to work in contests because they are having trouble getting talent to apply. If you stay for for a short time get some good portfolio pieces it's not a bad places to work but you should absolutely not invest a significant amount of your life into this company because you will never be rewarded for it.

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5.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Talented people, interesting projects, and a strong team environment.

Cons

Processes could be more streamlined.

3.0
29 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Exposure to a wide variety of projects and clients across industries (sports, museums, healthcare, corporate, etc.), which provided valuable learning about experiential design, fabrication, and integrated tech implementations. * Interactions with people from across the company were generally positive—many team members are motivated, collaborative, and genuinely trying to do good work. * The software/development team is extremely junior but enthusiastic and hardworking; there's real effort and potential in individuals. * Kansas City location is great—affordable living, good vibe, and the company contributes positively to the local creative/tech scene in some ways.

Cons

* The company is spread far too thin, dipping toes into too many areas (experience design, custom fabrication, signage, immersive tech, software, etc.) without committing fully or taking meaningful risks in any one direction. This leads to diluted focus and mediocre outcomes in competitive spaces. * In software and product development specifically, there's a fundamental misunderstanding of how brutally competitive the industry is. DI approaches it like a traditional client-service agency—when the client says jump, everyone jumps, with little room for strategic vision, iteration, or building repeatable, scalable products. It's custom work dressed up as innovation, but the reality is reactive agency behavior. * The software team, while eager, is very junior overall and lacks the depth/experience needed to compete in real software/product spaces. Leadership doesn't seem to grasp (or invest in) what it takes to build truly competitive tech. * There's an inflated sense of self-worth and positioning as a cutting-edge "tech firm" when the core strength is (and should remain) high-end custom fabrication, signage, and basic tech integrations for physical experiences. Trying to punch above their weight in pure software/product dev feels mismatched and unsustainable. * Project work often feels chaotic due to overextension—priorities shift based on whichever big client is loudest that quarter, not long-term strategy. * Pay is WAY BELOW market value for software development.

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