Simply a great place to grow as a designer - Anonymous employee Interaction Design Foundation Employee Review
5.0
9 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 3 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Colleagues who are super ambitious
Meaningful work with a great mission
I can work from anywhere
No bureaucracy
A manager who trusts me
A global team
Paid holidays
Results were at the center of success, not office politcs
Cons
Sometimes you have to motivate yourself by imagining the thousands of UX designers who are taking our courses since you don’t see the students in real life. Seeing real faces instead of statistics would give me greater motivation.
Interaction Design Foundation Response
7y
I am glad to see you mention meaningful work as a positive. We are very fortunate to have a product that serves and improves the professional lives of millions of people around the globe. A membership helps them to improve and learn new skills, so that we all can benefit from awesome products and services in our everyday lives. This is something that we appreciate and feel privileged to be a part of.
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The Interaction Design Foundation has a fantastic culture that is among the best I've seen at the companies I’ve worked for. Everyone really cares about their colleagues and especially the students who have entrusted their education to us. I feel privileged to educate the designers of tomorrow. I work with students from all over the world, and that helps me reinforce my belief that design is truly a cross-cultural and universal matter.
Cons
Language can present a challenge when working with students who aren’t proficient in English.
CEO thinks he’s a software engineer, but he jack squat about actual engineering. This is a terrible place to work and management has completely misaligned priorities.