Creative Assembly reviews

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.

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.