Good People, Design silos and Constant Management Change - Environmental Designer Freeman Employee Review

3.0
25 Aug 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great work culture. Love the people I work with, they are funny and creative and empathetic. I'm personal friends with many of them. The work is repetitive but fast-paced, and sometimes I get a creative project here and there. The work can hit you hard sometimes where you can't come up for air, but most co-workers are willing to help each other out when they can.

Cons

The job is fine if you don't mind repetitive work and slow movement towards any fulfilling change. Their new Return to Office initiative is outdated and lacking empathy. It's hypocritical as there are people who work in other cities that aren't required to be in office, and yet those within the boundary aren't allowed to move and keep their job. It's a boys club when it comes to promotion and landing creative work, and very hard to get clear job roles and career paths. All I've heard during my tenure is "we are working on it." People get promoted because of who they know, or how loud they speak in a meeting, not because of their loyalty or talents. I've had so many managers during my time, all with different styles and motivations. None know how to navigate the corporate bureacracy, and the changing rules and "re-orgs."

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5.0
15 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good people, good culture, flexible hybrid schedule

Cons

It’s hard to come up with any. Pay is lower than many companies.

2.0
29 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The pros were the per diem and the opportunity to travel. I really enjoyed visiting new cities and collaborating with kind, interesting people from across the country at different show sites. The pay was also very strong during busy seasons.

Cons

If you want to join a company where employees are undervalued, expected to obey rather than think critically, and favoritism is openly visible, then please avoid this company. The environment often felt heavily micromanaged at every level of leadership, with experiences of both covert and overt racism in the workplace. There was also a strong sense of competition and distrust among coworkers, where people would undermine one another for personal gain. Leadership and upper management appeared far more focused on optics and appearances than the actual well-being of the employees working on the show floor.

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