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The Creation Lab reviews

3.0

53% would recommend to a friend

(12 total reviews)

37% positive business outlook

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12 reviews
1.0
Aug 2, 2022

Don’t work here.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

When you first join they pretend to be nice at least.

Cons

To keep it brief, it has a toxic work environment with Comical / inept management. Do not work here, unless you want unrealistic work loads with terrible pay.

4.0
May 3, 2022
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Pros

After what was a rather drastic direction change in my career, as a qualified social worker I made the decision to study towards an MSc in Digital Marketing. The Creation Lab was the perfect place for me to begin my career as a marketeer - it was technically my first office job. Although I was a little older than my colleagues, I really enjoyed the experience. I felt that I learnt a lot and also that my ideas were embraced; I’ve worked in places before where suggestions are instantly dismissed, and yet here I recommended tools that I’d familiarised myself with at Uni, and discovered myself, and they were discussed and my ideas taken on board. I was quickly promoted from a Junior, to a Senior, and was then managing a team of Junior Creatives. I enjoyed the dynamic between myself and senior management.

Cons

During my time at TCL the team I was managing were a little naive. Some of the more junior staff were given a variety of projects to work on, the work of which was overseen by myself and then my Manager, and the MD for larger projects. In hindsight, I do feel that some of the younger staff were treating the job like college - i don’t believe some of them had ever received any constructive criticism before and it was really difficult managing them. Eventually, a lot of the dead-weight organically moved on, and I do think that was for the best for everyone. For me, personally, I have moved onto a larger corporate brand as I had worked my way up as far as I could in the time I was with TCL. I will be forever grateful to Matt, and the team for their support and this opportunity, and the Creation Lab will always have a place in my heart.

1.0
Apr 27, 2022

Incredibly Grim

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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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