RKS Design Reviews

3.1

53% would recommend to a friend

(54 total reviews)

Ravi Sawhney

48% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

RKS Design has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 54 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The RKS Design employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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54 reviews
1.0
24 Nov 2015

A nightmare come to life

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It looks better than a blank spot on a resume. You can feel good knowing you will never work anyplace worse than this. Free coffee. Clean bathrooms.

Cons

Owner regularly screams at employees for things that have nothing to do with them or are beyond their control. Owner is crazy and puts most of the company's resources into projects that no one cares about and lose money. Owner also knows very little about design or business and only cares about his wallet. Owner will tell clients anything to get their money and regularly misleads them or outright lies to them. Very few clients work with RKS after a project is over. Many leave mid project. Employee turnover is extremely high. No one believes how high it is until they see it for themselves.

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RKS Design Response
10y
We welcome feedback, positive and negative however, we completely disagree with this review. We, in fact, have a very high client return rate with only an exceptionally rare cancellation which occurs should a corporation change course, as all in this profession know and accept. Many of our clients have been working with us for 20 years and longer. In business for over 35 years, our contributions to people's lives is what propels us. Our integrity, talent, knowledge, approach and experience has led to countless success stories for our clients and great admiration of the RKS team and their contributions by it's management. In the process of serving our clients and the greater good, our team and the ownership have also shared in the success. This review is simply false and malicious.
1.0
6 Jan 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people working there are genuinely nice and are talented in what they do.

Cons

Just look at the reviews. You can clearly tell the positive ones were written by upper management because the owner responds to everything. I wasn't going to review after leaving because I thought it'd be better to leave it at that, but seeing the influx of false reviews made me angry. I truly don't believe that anyone should ever try to work here.

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RKS Design Response
10y
On behalf of myself, and my team, I'm disappointed to see this type of baseless remark. RKS's contributions of Psycho-Aesthetics (P/A) as an advanced Design Thinking Methodology is endorsed by Harvard, Wharton, the U.S. state Department and taught at various universities regularly; SCAD, CSULB,Pepperdine, UCLA, USC in addition to being shared globally through the Harvard Case study, the Harvard Classroom exercise, our business book in publication for over 8 years; Predictable Magic and our Method Book ; P/A which we use for client workshops and teaching. We proudly work pro-bono for and support multiple charities and have applied P/A to the creation of the first of its kind crowd funding social commerce start-up, LoanGifting.com to help 45 million people get out from under the burden of student debt. With hundreds of awards and being named on hundreds of patents, and clients who have been with us for decades, we strive for our individual team member's growth and success by providing mentorship, opportunity, full benefits, flex work hours, opportunity and have provided stock options in LoanGifting and RKS for team members.
1.0
3 Feb 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Clean bathrooms, each of which is in it's own room and not a stall. you cannot hear/smell what's going on in the adjacent bathrooms, which is nice. Also there is a ventilation fan at the top and a vanilla scented thing.

Cons

Owner regularly screams at employees over matters which they had no control. People who seem unlikely to stick up for themselves get the worst of it. Employees are expected to work upwards of 50 hours a week with no overtime or bonuses. Managements promises future salary increases based on this work but then never follows through.

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RKS Design Response
10y
We welcome your comments and while your comments are negative, we respect them although, we find them unfortunate. We try very hard to mentor team members who have weaknesses in performance and adjust to their needs. We are striving to advance the design profession through advancing ourselves and continual improvement. And, as with the pro-bono work we do, we are making an impact but, we're not the 9-5 job you may have been looking for; we're passionate and driven about everything we do. Sorry you didn't fit in.
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