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Incredibly Grim - Content Creator The Creation Lab Employee Review

1.0
Apr 27, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Close to Dartford - Good way to learn very basic marketing strategy

Cons

- Highly toxic work environment -‘Blame-game’ culture with disorganised management - Unrealistic work load I still shock my current employers with stories about my time here. They welcome you initially with smiles and a cutesy ‘small family’ culture which eventually turns into them bullying and harassing you for any mistake or piling work onto you if you’re competent (able to juggle about twenty clients at a time and still attend the stupid two hour long meetings that go nowhere). Believe the poor reviews on here. Beware as a current employee if you are passing the ‘four month mark’ as the honeymoon period is almost over. The high staff turnover speaks for itself, no one I worked with apart from senior management is there anymore. I feel so sorry for anyone currently working here. I know management won’t learn anything or care no matter how many bad reviews they get because we’re all crazy and they are always right and have never done anything wrong. Okay! That’s why you’ve got such a poor Glassdoor score and while I was there we were ‘strongly encouraged’ to go on and give positive reviews. But I’m sure they’ll deny this like they deny any wrongdoing whatsoever.

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1.0
Jan 9, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good place to start your career, leading to better and brighter things. Great team who I have some very fond memories with. Almost everyone I worked with would absolutely flourish at a well run company.

Cons

Incredible amount of work put on peoples plates. Unrealistic deadlines. No real vision. Managing director is worryingly needy for personal attention. ________________ Convenient how two almost identical glowing reviews pop up both published in the space of 24 hours. Cries of fake, or forced reviews. Fake reviews that list cons like "office can get a bit cold in winter" and "don't have to travel into London" really are signs of desperation from a management team trying to think of anything to write down to hold together any ounce of integrity that is left. Any reviewer giving Creation Lab anything higher than 2 stars are delusional. The 'good reviews' do make for funny reading though, you can almost see the puppet strings. Sad to see current employee's being coerced to post reviews, but nothing surprises me about that sinking ship. ________________

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The Creation Lab Response
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Thank you for your review, however we believe this isn’t your first negative review towards The Creation Lab and it is disappointing that you choose to misuse this platform in this way. We would normally respond constructively, however it is very obvious your review is simply an attempt to personally attack management and an attempt to damage the organisation’s reputation. It is unfortunate that you still feel the need to continue a personal vendetta following your departure a long time ago. I can assure you The Creation Lab is performing very well, and has grown considerably since your departure; but thank you for your concerns. I can also assure you that all our reviews are genuine and written by current employees at their own discretion.
5.0
Jan 22, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The Creation lab was my first real job after leaving uni and I have to say I enjoyed every miinute of it. I got to work with so many great people and work on so many client projects. Everyday was different and I really loved coming to work. There was a lot to do each day, but that is expected from a creative agency. Deadlines have to be met and sometimes I had to work late to ensure projects were done on time. This isn’t a place to work if you’re looking for an easy 9 to 5. The pressure of deadlines and making clients happy is what makes the job exciting. I had to leave the company due to personal reasons, but I do miss working there.

Cons

Sometimes have to work late to finish work. Can be thrown in the deep end sometimes, and have to learn quickly.

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