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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

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
1.0
Apr 30, 2024

Useless Management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

At this current time, there are no pros to working for this company. 6 years ago, my opinion may have been different but the only 'pro' is the free food.

Cons

The company has been run into the ground by managers who just don't know what they're doing. None of them have successfully run companies before, in fact the Studio Director has already run one or two games companies into dust prior. The workforce is being reduced from around 700 (originally) to 280 come June 2024 following a SECOND, massive round of redundancies. Guess who's not impacted at all - the senior 'leadership' team, one of whom is on north of 200k and is mates with the boss. They have no qualifications or experience in the industry and don't seem to be performing any job role. It's a boys club, they couldn't manage their way out of a paper bag - proven by the devastating layoffs 2023 and upcoming in 2024. They overpay meaning finding a job outside of there near on impossible. Avoid.

2.0
Apr 20, 2024

Good people, poor management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people doing the hard work of making the products

Cons

Out of touch management and HR that protects them not workers. Poor pay. Horsham is both expensive and boring. Inflexible working conditions. HR acts like Gestapo for management. I saw racism and sexism and general schoolboy antics by team leaders.

1.0
Apr 10, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Working on cool titles which is a great addition to a portfolio

Cons

Toxic environment, redundancies, low non competitive salaries, really bad decision making in production, some people do nothing and are obtaining head roles by mistake

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