Decent agency - Creative Producer CONSCIOUS MINDS STUDIOS Employee Review

Great culture and team Exciting clients

Tends to be disorganized when setting up projects

None. There was nothing good about working here.

If you're a creative looking for a healthy place to do good work, keep looking. This was one of the most chaotic and demoralizing creative environments I've worked in. Everything was an emergency. Timelines were unrealistic, priorities changed constantly, and poor planning somehow always became the creative team's problem. Communication was all over the place. Feedback changed depending on who was in the room, expectations shifted mid-project, and it often felt like success depended more on guessing what leadership wanted that day than doing good work. THE BIGGEST ISSUE? THE CULTURE. Creative reviews could feel less like critique and more like someone having an emotional outburst in real time. Instead of fostering thoughtful critique, there was a tendency toward defensiveness, frustration, and blame. I also personally heard the founder speak down to the creative director in a way that came off demeaning and unprofessional. Seeing that dynamic from the top down made it easier to understand why communication throughout the organization often felt tense and reactive rather than collaborative. The moment that made it clear this wasn't a healthy workplace came after I respectfully shared feedback about repeated angry outbursts during creative reviews. Instead of sitting with it or acknowledging it, the creative director responded by asking whether I had "grown up with an angry dad." Truly unhinged behavior. Then there was the overtime situation. The way pay was handled became an unnecessary fight, with shifting explanations about how overtime and regular pay were calculated that didn't line up with what I'd agreed to when I accepted the role. I had to fight tooth and nail to be paid for my work. There are genuinely talented people here, and I feel for them. But talent can't compensate for disorganized leadership, poor communication, unrealistic expectations, and a culture where speaking up feels risky. I left burned out and with a much higher bar for what I'll tolerate from leadership. No project is worth working in an environment like this.