Does Creative Assembly pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Creative Assembly employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Creative Assembly. This rating has improved by 3% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Creative Assembly?

54% of Creative Assembly employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Creative Assembly 3.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.3 for culture and values and 3.0 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Creative Assembly?

Artist (8) , Programmer (8) , Game Designer (7) , QA Technician (7) , Animator (5) , Designer (5) , Cinematic Artist (3) , Developer (3) , Environment Artist (3) , Gameplay Programmer (3) , Senior Technical Artist (3) , Software Engineer (3) , 3D Artist (2) , AI Programmer (2) , Automation Engineer (2)

What are the pros of working at Creative Assembly according to real employee reviews?

"Great people in (local) leadership" ((in 35 reviews)); "Good benefits overall" ((in 21 reviews)); "Good work life balance (almost no crunch)" ((in 10 reviews)); "Free breakfast and coffee." ((in 9 reviews)); "Annual bonus" ((in 6 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Creative Assembly according to real employee reviews?

"salary is low for southern UK for almost every team." ((in 20 reviews)); "salaries are low and senior leadership have some very strange ideas about how to make a game." ((in 14 reviews)); "Disconnected management Ongoing strife with community Pay could be better Outdated pipelines that strangle work" ((in 13 reviews)); "Upper management tends to take rushed decisions every now and then, but I feel like they are actively working towards fixing this problem." ((in 7 reviews)); "Even after the layoffs it's still bloated with far too many people who either don't know how to or don't care about doing their jobs properly." ((in 4 reviews))

What are employees saying about Creative Assembly layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Creative Assembly layoffs and their outlook for job security at Creative Assembly in 2026.

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3.2

54% would recommend to a friend

(210 total reviews)

Gareth Edmondson

51% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Diversity & inclusion

3.7

Work/Life balance

3.3

Culture & values

3.1

Compensation and benefits

3.0

Career opportunities

2.6

Senior management

Creative Assembly has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 210 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Creative Assembly employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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210 reviews

5.0

Jun 12, 2024

Great company to work for

Studio support manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Culture, the staff, and the freedom to implement ideas. The flexible and home working is a huge bonus and

Cons

Separation from the senior leadership team meant there was a divide and a lack of trust.

3.0

Jun 11, 2024

Nice place but low salaries

Game designer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good place to work with some interesting projects and nice office culture

Cons

salaries are low and senior leadership have some very strange ideas about how to make a game. Hopefully they will have learnt their lesson after layoffs

1.0

Jun 4, 2024

Completely incapable of putting out a good game at this point

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Low expectations Easy to coast by if you don't really care about your job Fear of confrontation means you will rarely be called out on your mistakes (I leave it up to you to decide how much these really are pros)

Cons

It all started with far below industry average salaries As a result all the competent people left to work at companies that actually reward them appropriately Today this company is completely incapable of putting out a good game as a result It is a group of blind leading the blind. The projects are in terrible shape and nobody has any plans for how to get them back on track. Even after the layoffs it's still bloated with far too many people who either don't know how to or don't care about doing their jobs properly. As a result not only does it lack the technical expertise to make good decisions, it lacks the cohesion to make any decisions at all and it keeps vacillating between multiple bad options back and forth with nothing ever getting done.

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