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An organisation coasting in comfortable mediocrity - Learning Designer Engineers Australia Employee Review

3.0
26 Feb 2020
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Pros

The majority of the staff are nice. The office is clean, modern and in a great location. The building itself has great end of trip facilities and fitness classes. Progressive policies around work-life balance. Progressive inclusion and diversity policies. Mental health is valued. A lot of effort is being put into creating a positive culture and working environment.

Cons

Ugly background politics. Visionless leadership. Mismanaged priorities. Massively siloed. Rewards based on time-served rather than merit. Innovation is impeded by bureaucracy. Very hierarchical. Keeping up an appearance of 'nice' is seen as more important than doing your job competently. Too many cooks resulting in dreaded 'design by committee' outcomes.

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2.0
26 Oct 2025
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Pros

Reasonable work-life balance if needed. Good culture of diversity and inclusion.

Cons

It's a very siloed organisation. Lots of top-down micromanagement from the board or executive level by people who don't know all the details. A very risk averse culture where projects require 100 sign-offs for something that should be delegated. Many teams working with conflicting aims. Senior management great at creating high-level strategic plans but poor at communicating how they relate to day-to-day tasks. A whole class of middle managers who do nothing but hold meetings with each other and create PowerPoint presentations. The internal People Pulse surveys find the same problems every quarter, yet nothing really changes. The legacy IT systems are awful, but thankfully are being replaced (slowly).

5.0
3 Dec 2025
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Pros

A lot of capable people who are kind and easy to work with

Cons

Can be slow and top down

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