TRIO Design Reviews

3.0

49% would recommend to a friend

(63 total reviews)

Angela Harris

50% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

TRIO Design has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 63 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The TRIO Design employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, repair and maintenance industry (3.7 stars).

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63 reviews
1.0
15 Jun 2021

DO NOT WORK HERE

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Pros

Cannot think of a single thing positive about this place.

Cons

Where do I begin? They dazzle prospective employees with their benefits package, however it’s extremely false advertising. Work/Life balance means working 50+ hour weeks and majority of weekends to meet irrational deadlines set in their contracts. You can’t take PTO without stabbing yourself in the back and if you don’t use it, you lose it. Profit hungry and over commit to projects at designers expense. Constantly overworking employees with no recognition or regards to their wellbeing. Have witnessed several employees have mental breakdowns at work because of exhaustion and stress. The best part about Trio is that employees do not get a voice, and they scare you into conformity and fear of being laid off. Trio believes that employees are expendable. Trio has an extremely high turnover rate (I’m talking upwards of 5 new employees starting every week) and has to resort to hiring remote employees out of state because they have gone through every designer in Denver and have a terrible reputation in the community. They USE and ABUSE employees, and then throw you away. Extremely confused how they have so many positive reviews, must of paid for them.

1.0
11 Nov 2021
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Pros

Lots of vacation time (I think 4 weeks) to make up for working an average of 80 hours a week and getting underpaid…

Cons

Abusive toxic environment…their marketing and flashing lights draw in naive Interior Designers only to be severely underpaid to live in Denver and work an insane amount of hours of week on a sad salary. You’re expected to work overtime for no overtime pay, work on vacation so really don’t bother taking time off. Trio is basically a turn and burn place for Interior designers to gain experience and move on to bigger and better where they are not mentally and emotionally abused. The lead designers are so rude and verbally abusive. You’re expected to travel all the time so you don’t have a life and expected to do physically dangerous risky tasks on installs that should honestly be an HR violation but that won’t get you anywhere since HR is friends with the owner of the company. Don’t waste your voice or time or talent at this company that will only suppress and abuse you to the point where you’ll need therapy for years following

1.0
28 Aug 2020

Beware! Toxic culture!!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

4 weeks of PTO if you can find time to actually use it. Some of the people are really amazing - to them I say there is life after Trio!

Cons

Everything else. The epitome of a toxic environment! I literally feel like I escaped from an abusive relationship by leaving here! They brainwash you to think they are the best and that this is such an amazing place to work but it is so far from the truth. Just because you say it over and over, doesn’t make it true... Do NOT work here unless you are willing to work a minimum of 50-60+ hours every single week until you burn out. Everyone here actually doing all of the work is extremely overworked and nothing ever changes. Read through all of the reviews and in the honest ones you will see the exact same story every time. Don’t expect to have any life outside of work, the work/life balance is non-existent. They pay everyone (a very low) salary and then work you to death. Expectations are ridiculously high and unrealistic, there was (and still is) a global pandemic happening yet they try to act like nothing skipped a beat and waste thousands upon thousands of dollars rushing items to installs and reselecting over and over instead of being realistic with their deadlines and clients. They pride themselves on saying yes to every client request no matter how unrealistic, at the expense of all of their employees. The volatile people somehow get rewarded here, it has nothing at all to do with how hard you work or how well you do your job, it’s like they thrive on drama from the bad apples. I have never been so stressed or disrespected at a job in my life. Beware of all of the 5 star reviews, they are all from executive leadership and they were asked to add them to offset all of the terrible but TRUE reviews. Nearly 100% of their original employees and almost all of the employees from the company they acquired have turned over in less than 2 years, that should tell you all you need to know!! It’s all smoke and mirrors, the entire company is a facade of good marketing and the CEO is a great actress. They’ll be nice to you until you’re hired on and then it’s only about how much money you can make them until you finally have had it and leave, then they’ll immediately replace you and act like you never existed. When you put in your two weeks‘ notice, be prepared to be ignored from that moment on. BEWARE!!

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