Creative Dock Reviews

2.8

42% would recommend to a friend

(47 total reviews)

37% positive business outlook

Creative Dock has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 47 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Creative Dock employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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47 reviews
2.0
22 Aug 2022
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Pros

The only positive thing about the company is the possibility to work remotely, but that's quite common nowadays.

Cons

- There are no benefits at all - The salary is below the market (the management even boasted about it in an article). - It is common for the interviewer to ignore your salary requirements and invite you to a one-day boot camp (knowing they will not give you what you asked for). Then will make you a lower offer (hoping you will take it because you "fell in love with the company"). - Work-life balance is difficult. You are kinda expected to be always online and often work overtime. - The projects in the company are not really innovative or disruptive. It's basically a sugar-coated body shop. - If you want to work in the office, then Creative Dock (CD) is not for you. The development, customer support, HR, and innovation teams are crowded in an open-space basement of a building with a gallery (and management) upstairs. The problem is many people are not able to work in an open space. They find it normal to shout or laugh out loud across the whole space or just run around or play with dogs.

2.0
8 Nov 2022

Job with lot of pros but even more cons

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Possibility to gain a lot of experience in a short period of time, you get in touch with sometimes interesting clients, you actually leave a trace of your own work on the project (which is nice and not usual in every company), you get to know some interesting people, sometimes even easy to find a mentor. The people working there are cool and usually friendly, you can build some nice friendships there.

Cons

The latest project are definitely not a nice thing! The biggest client is placed in Saudi Arabia (we all know what struggles are there with human / women rights) and the second biggest client is a tobacco company testing all their products on animals! A hard thing to swallow when you firstly was hired in a company which presented its sustainable ideas, eco-friendly venture building plans and where the COO is strongly advocating for women rights. Other cons: Total mess on projects, often chaotic office ambience, wages under market standard, they promise you a raise but never keep the promise, they treat you like an employee (even heard a rumor about wanting to make it mandatory to go to the office w/ very limited possibilities of home office) but almost everyone is contractor, they expect you to be online 24/7, they present nice offices, but in reality, you're placed in a noisy open space in the basement where it's either too hot, or too cold, in both cases with no air, zero employee benefits (they treat you as an employee when it benefits them, once it means they should do something for you, they switch to the "you're only a contractor" narrative) High fluctuation of people, often hired and then fired in a few months, hand overs not handled properly. It creates some really bad situations. Considering the unstable environment (projects often fail, very few of them make it to the MVP and post-MVP phases + what was mentioned in previously), it creates constant fear of being fired.

3.0
31 Jan 2023

Chaos

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A lot of creative, cool and very talented people

Cons

Chaos Management Apathy Cold approach No benefits

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