WONGDOODY reviews about "management"

- It's not easy to pick and choose the projects you'd like to work on especially if you're a fresher.

Senior management often displayed biased decision-making and lacked openness to diverse perspectives. This created challenges that affected overall morale.

The company called themselves "UX focus" company but they know nothing about UX design. The overall management is dysfunctional and keeps lying to their employees with a delusional future. CEO already left and the current management in the country is only 36 yrs with zero management skills. Few things please read before you applied this company: 1. They have history about labor law violation in Taiwan due to overtime and cut the salary without notice. 2. The management refused to take any suggestion and they are poor in communicating with employees as all the conflicts within a team is considered "toxic" and they never thought if they are qualified enough to be the management 3. There is no "remote first" you have to get management's approval to work remotely and they will message you all the time when you work from home due to the lack of trust and security 4. There is no accountability of the colleagues and management. They will shuffle the responsibility away and not take the blame 5. There is no HR and there is always something wrong with your payslip. You have to be mindful of the calculation. The company even refused to provide a payslip 6. They hired people without having an entitiy 7. There is no clear regulations about career progression and improvement 8. There is no job training as the management doesn't think it's important. They like to drown people first and let them die.

They don't want to send any money on quality resources. Numerous talented designers have departed due to dissatisfaction with their salaries. Interestingly, Wongdoody seems to charge clients twice the billing rate compared to other units, yet fails to match competitive compensation for designers with similar levels of experience. Profits seemingly flow disproportionately towards shareholders, leadership, and senior management, leaving employees disheartened. This lopsided distribution of income contributes to low morale among staff. The only individuals displaying enthusiasm are recent college graduates, whose optimism may dwindle after a year or two. Moreover, opportunities for advancement appear to hinge more on chance rather than merit, determined by the projects one is allocated to.

WD is a traditional creative agency that was dragged into the world of consulting and forced to try and find a business model that works. Spoiler: it didn’t. No one at the agency can really even describe what WD does anymore. The agency has lost any semblance of integrity it once had, due to two things: 1. The Infosys merger 2. Ineffective and at times incompetent senior leadership. Even C-Suite leaders are looking over their shoulders, wondering if the Infosys overlords will tell them their roles are being made redundant tomorrow. WD services are pigeonholed into larger Infosys deals where they do not belong. Forced to put together BS proposals for scrap deals. Infosys does not respect the work WD does, they view the agency as a joke (which is unfair) and treat it as such. Too many resources were burned on pitches we were never going to win. Scopes were on ongoing game of “how do we get it down to this number” with increasing disregard for the actual output. Penny pinched, terrible margins, forced to nearshore and offshore more and more roles - no wonder they’ve had 4x RIFs over the past 2 years. No one has gotten a raise in years. I watched my peers transform into shells of their former selves due to burnout. WD has become another soulless agency that waxes poetic about how “humans are at the center of everything we do” yet continues to disregard humans, attempting to hide the real state of the company behind smoke and mirrors and HR jargon. Between multiple changes in leadership, BS town halls, and empty AMAs that function more like PR tours - WD leadership has been fumbling and making some strange choices in the process. I think Infosys’ ultimate plan is to dissolve or merge the agency with another agency they’ve acquired that essentially does the same thing. But who knows. It’s a shame, but I guess that’s just business.

The clients we had were challenging at times.

I didn’t notice any so far

Bad management, no creativity, low salary,