Watson Creative Reviews

So many. The owner is a total jerk who can't get over the fact that he worked at Nike like 15 years ago. He continues to name drop the Swoosh every chance he gets. He will work hard at selling Watson to perspective clients and never follow through on any of the promises that he claims Watson can fulfill. The turnover is extremely high, and once you leave he will tell clients that he fired you to save face. The junior designers work their butts off and do have talent, but sadly the person who owns the company is not that creative and has average talent at best. Worst of all he knows nothing about running a business or leading a team. Stay as far away as you can from this place.

During my employment I felt like this place was toxic, set up as an unhealthy sweat shop, and not a place I could sustainability work at long term. It seemed like most of the real efforts by leadership were targeted in acquiring new business by advertising portfolio pieces that were expanded on, (such as including work that was never finished with the client), or still showcasing work that was done before Watson Creative was ever formed–and yet the company has demanded some former employees to take down Watson work from their portfolio (even when full credit was given to Watson, and that is how designers survive). During my employment, it seemed like leadership had a focus of making the company appear different than what we were capable of, which also contributed to us feeling like there was more than what we could take or execute on. One example during that period was including contracted partners or vendors with all other employees on our staff page of the website that were not as involved in day to day activities, but had no differentiating verbiage to indicate they were not at our office. All of this is to say that I had hoped that energy was instead, put into proper resourcing for full time employees–I always had far too much work to ever feel like I could be that great at my job, or grow. Despite some menial efforts in improving, I didn't feel it ever truly could because of things like I mentioned above. Its unfortunate because during my employment there was some good talent there, but if the company is still running the way it was while I was there, Watson will likely not ever have the stability to get past the mode of survival, take on larger accounts, or keep employees long term-- even though they've been at it for about 7+? years (I believe).