Hook & Loop Reviews

2.1

18% would recommend to a friend

(10 total reviews)

9% positive business outlook

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1.0
14 Mar 2020

Not a real department

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Pros

If you're looking to switch careers, this can be a good place to get your start. They're generally not concerned with experience and will give you opportunities to own whole projects (training/support will not be provided and recommendation will be ignored, but you will be accountable for outcomes).

Cons

This isn't a real product design department. Leadership is inexperienced, projects are poorly managed, and quality standards are low. Most design work does not make it into product and most products fail to launch. This group primarily exists as support for sales presentations.

1.0
4 Dec 2019

Toxic by design

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- The office and location are great with a few perks like premium coffee, a finished rooftop, and a couple beer taps on one floor - If you're an FIT design student, this could be a decent opportunity to see how you like the product/UX field through a paid internship. - Except for management, people are very kind. I made valuable personal and professional connections here. - Work-life balance is not terrible but hard to take DTO when you're always anticipating of the next fire

Cons

Most of us could kvetch for hours about this place's shortcomings, but here's the CliffNotes version. H&L has some of the most toxic, maladaptive management many of us have seen. They are like four heads of an ugly hydra. I would say it's two hardened narcissists enabled by two sycophants. Turnover is high thanks to people constantly leaving and nearly annual layoffs that decimate teams and hang years-long projects out to dry. Essential roles are either never backfilled or outsourced across the world -- leaving major gaps in day-to-day workflows. Worse yet, managers celebrate failures instead of "learning their way forward" as they always tell us. This includes openly gloating about a brutal round of layoffs at a nearby bar just one hour after firing about a dozen people. It was sickening to witness but so symbolic of the dysfunction. They take solipsistic pleasure flexing in their little fiefdom with no regard for how it affects productivity and morale. The lack of care and self-awareness on their part is shocking, but sadly not surprising... For those considering accepting an offer here, I'd advise you to proceed with caution and consider your career goals and wellbeing before taking the plunge. Read the recent Glassdoor reviews for Infor, and it's the same story. Pay is submarket, raises are zilch, and management is allergic to investing in people. They treat employees like human brake pads with not much upside for us.

3.0
19 Aug 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Clean office with plenty of open space, great people to work with; this is a company good to get your feet wet. If you don't mind working on predominantly B2B software then this is a great place to get that experience under your belt. Plenty of food around the office, and all the coffee you can drink.

Cons

The company doesn't know where it wants to go. You might work on a project for months which might never see the light of day. When I worked here it was very siloed, not sure now? If you want to get products out to market this wouldn't be my first choice.

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