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      IDEO

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      4.0

      79% would recommend to a friend

      (289 total reviews)

      Mike Peng

      100% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.3

      Culture & values

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      IDEO has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 289 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IDEO employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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      289 reviews
      4.0
      Mar 20, 2026

      Good Company

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Smart people, good company, good work

      Cons

      Not applicable to my experience

      4.0
      Jan 7, 2026

      The culture you want to have

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Excellent corporate culture and human-centered approach to personnel. Decent perks and average benefits. Excellent vacation package. Good salaries for small consulting business.

      Cons

      Work-life balance depends on role, function, and time of year.

      4.0
      Sep 8, 2025

      A transformative experience

      Senior designer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The company runs projects much like any post-graduate design programs in academia. The designers are given full agency to experiment, explore and execute. Your understanding and capacity for design craft is tested to its limits, and you train yourself to be focused on delivering the final result, utilizing all resources you can find on top of your own design training. After IDEO, as a designer, I feel like I can do anything design-related because the value of design becomes a way of thinking instead of just a way of making something.

      Cons

      Especially for business clients in China, for whom the general understanding of design thinking is quite low-level, there had to be a lot of hand-holding throughout any project. This actually adds a lot to the opportunity cost and time of a project, is often the hardest part instead of the design process itself. There wasn't really enough resources built in the company to help designers with dealing with clients on that front, and in my opinion, this specific reality sometimes deters designers from doing better work.

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