Manifest Digital Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Manifest Digital full-time for more than a year

Pros – When I started at Manifest, it was wonderful and a growing, exciting place.

Cons – Management restructured the organization every six months, it seemed like, never giving a structure time to settle in and work out.

Little or no process. Everyone was allowed to work how they wanted to work regardless of how ineffective it was.

People I referred in told me that HR was cold and/or unresponsive.

Higher paid people were laid off to be replaced by cheaper ones.

Advice to Senior Management – Pick a structure and stick to it for a year.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Manifest Digital

Pros – A couple great people, nice location and snacks.

Cons – Lots of big egos, huge turnover, terrible pay.

Advice to Senior Management – Lose the egos and work on developing your employees and company. You should value results more than "face-time."

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Manifest Digital full-time for more than a year

Pros – Free Snacks and management is usually "working from home" so you can set your own schedule as long as you're meeting deadlines.

Cons – 1. Management has absolutely no idea how to run a company. Just because you were a director when there were 3 employees, doesn't mean you should be one when there are 80 (although now they're down to like 20 people)
2. The turnover rate makes any kind of client relationship maintenance hard -- maybe trying to find out why you have 2 people leaving every week might help improve the situation
3. Some management are directors of departments they have very little knowledge in (mobile, for example)
4. Large majority of management spend their time in meetings talking about pie in the sky "lets change the world stuff" when in reality they should maybe think about spending a little more time not letting the company go under. You aren't changing the world...you build sub par websites.

Advice to Senior Management – Get some people that know what they're doing to run UX and mobile -- you can only keep an act up for so long.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Manifest Digital full-time for more than a year

Pros – There are very talented employees that help you grow in your career by exposing you to new ways to solve problems.

Cons – Some of these people are leaving due to inattention on the part of management. The company is still trying to figure out the best way to organize itself and in the meantime, the employees suffer. To sign accounts, people over-promise and set the employees up for long hours and/or failure.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop agreeing to insane deadlines to get big names- set employees and teams up for success by managing client expectations.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Manifest Digital full-time for more than a year

Pros – there are some talented people working there

Cons – account managers that do not understand the creative process or user-centered design are setting deadlines and determining deliverables.

Advice to Senior Management – you have a high turnover rate, ask people why they left.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Manifest Digital full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great atmosphere, friendly employees, talented people, growth opportunities

Cons – constantly changing (along come growing pains)

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Manifest Digital

Pros – Work with very smart and dedicated people who are sincere in doing the best work they can
Flexible schedules
Allowed to work fairly independently
Free beer, beverages, fruits

Cons – Poor and inadequate communications
Disorganized and reactive management style
Unclearly scoped and underscoped projects that lead to avoidable issues both internally and externally
Lack of a clear, strong and (most of all) realistic vision
Employees are sometimes put in situations where they can't possibly succeed and often take the fall for it

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Manifest Digital full-time

Pros – Decent work life balance at times
Decent pay IF you were making a decent salary before you came to Manifest

Cons – Bad management
Bad review process
No room for growth if you haven't been there for 10 years

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Manifest Digital full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Independent agency - no Holding Company.
Leadership working to create a unique business - in vision and model.
Empathetic approach to culture and client work.
Amazing & smart co-workers. Great clients.
Strategic and executional work focused on results (not awards).
Opportunity to make an impact on business, culture, work product and process.
Maturing organization - significant growth over last 4 years.
Autonomous & demanding environment - no babysitting.
High reward for high performance.

Cons – Building a new, better agency model means trial and error / learn and optimize.
Level of diversity in client portfolio makes operational standards challenging (being addressed).
Sometimes too internally focused.
Autonomous & demanding environment (isn't for everyone).

Advice to Senior Management – Set your employees up for success. Maintain high expectations but focus on simple & realistic goals, helping to build confidence & job satisfaction.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Manifest Digital full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Applying and elevating the use of user experience as a business toolset, creative as a way to transform business, and analytics/technology as the enabling foundations that get you there. The people engaged in this level of work are highly motivated and applying their skills in entirely new ways.

Cons – Not everyone can be involved in every major business challenge, which can be frustrating. This organization is out to make major changes in the market and some of these efforts are still years away so a lot of work remains to be done.

Advice to Senior Management – Help connect the high-minded thinking with the day-to-day activities that still have to get done. The organization wants to go in this direction but is sometimes unclear on near-term steps.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company