SCORCH Reviews

In the time I spent at SCORCH, my confidence was so shattered that I never thought I would be able to leave. My personality had completely changed and I was becoming a person I no longer liked that could only dwell on how terrible life was. I had to start seeing a psychiatrist (who urged me to quit at the end of every session) and was put on medication because of SCORCH. I've witnessed coworkers go into a full on breakdown multiple times in the middle of the office. I've had to run out of the office quite a few times to either cry or scream in my car. I know I'm not alone in that as well. Even though you're working with such big clients, you're likely only being paid pennies compared to the rest of the St. Louis design industry, unless you're in the CEO's "inner circle". I was told how lucky I was to be able to earn as much as I did. The work/life balance is an absolute joke. Unlimited PTO sounds amazing, but in reality is just a marketing ploy, and the CEO would usually get pretty upset if someone is working from home when he decides he needs to hover behind them and "help" them with their work. All of the positive reviews were written by the CEO's "inner circle." Their outlook of the company is vastly different from the average SCORCH employee. Who knows, maybe it truly has changed since I left, but the number of times I witnessed the CEO promise to change just to revert back two minutes later is too high to count. It's cyclical, and exhausting.

The itch to just barf profanities and obscenities along with insults and jabs is almost unbearable, but honestly that would not be fair. Yes the environment there (or at least when I was there), was far less sunshine and rainbows than the far too utopian to be true outlook of the anonymous reviewer, but there were glimpses of what could be considered great potential. As with any growing agency there will be hiccups, but this one has cancer. A toxic mixture of bullying and downright lack of caring sometimes. However the few redeeming qualities are very strong, the designers are some of the funniest and loyal people I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Unfortunately their talents are squandered for the most part due to lack of planning and ridiculous timelines. The work that is done there is for some of the largest businesses in the world, you would think that more than a 5 minute conversation would take place with the person who is supposed to bring the client's project to life. Sadly usually this isn't the case.