DDC Reviews

Pros

Occasional team outings and parties, nice view from the rooftop

Cons

As previously noted, absolutely toxic culture, sub-par, user unfriendly product, abysmal management practices. Not to mention ZERO effective training. They throw a handbook at you and expect you to be up to speed and on your own within 4 months. Garbage pay compared to other firms, especially in an expensive city like DC. Not surprising they've been hemorrhaging talent. Most entry and junior-level talent stays a year then moves on... if they survive that long. Not unusual for juniors to develop anxiety disorders.

Pros

casual dress code work from home options

Cons

Echo other reviews, toxic environment and culture. Does not pay market value, lots of other DC firms have better culture and will pay fair wages. All of midlevel talent has left or is looking. Senior execs are trying to fix things, but its a bandage over a bullet hole caused by themselves. Promised staff there would be improvements and initiatives but then backtracked after a month. Terrible new senior hires are driving employees away.

Pros

Flexible schedule. Work from home which is helpful for parents. Decent benefits.

Cons

Management is distant. No room for growth for junior employees. Poor communication. Waste client money and provide poor end product. After seeing the sausage made, I would never hire DDC if I was in a position to do so.

Pros

They pay you to be there, every two weeks.

Cons

Actively toxic atmosphere. High-stress, tear-you-down, sky-is-falling every day culture — not a rough patch, but for multiple years now. The business model personnel-wise is to churn staff under the age of 30 every 12 months, then hand off work to contractors — if you stay longer than that, DDC is coming out ahead. Terrible at hiring and attracting talent, so many get fired inside 90 days (never seen this happen anywhere else). Fancy titles like “Associate Vice President” go to people with ~2 years of experience so that clients think they’re getting attention from legitimate mid-level pros. Working on a single unsuccessful political campaign qualifies one as an “expert political strategist”, according to the staffing page and BD materials. They send out workplace review surveys, then when the results are terrible either say "we're going to make changes" and never do -- or they just plain don't share the results.