Hard-working business with fantastic career opportunities for self-starters - Content Producer NeoMam Studios Employee Review

5.0
26 Jun 2016
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Pros

• Great career prospects - Helped me develop from a freelancer/intern to a qualified professional with management experience and a practical understanding of the industry. • Fantastic place for self-starters with ambition - Plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and gain additional responsibilities. • Passionate leadership always open to new ideas/working practices to help them get the best results. • Small tight-knit team. Reliable and fun people with a strong work-ethic. • Great office amenities and location – Arcade machine, table-tennis tournaments, table football and free coffee all in the heart of the city centre.

Cons

• Initial lack of a formal hiring process led to a number of bad recruitment choices early on. • Transitioning from a start-up to a functional business caused a lot of structural changes.

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NeoMam Studios Response
10y
Thanks for taking the time to do a review of your time with us at NeoMam- we really appreciate it! I’m really happy to hear that you’ve grown from, enjoyed and took full advantage of your time here at NeoMam- it’s exactly the kind of thing we like to hear! It’s brilliant to hear you’ve been able to use the skills you’ve developed to progress your career even further. Thanks for the feedback about the hiring process- we’re developing and improving on this all the time and we continue to do so in the future. If you have any specific recommendations, please don’t hesitate to reach out and tell us. We are also currently trying to expand on the kind of content we do for our campaigns to test how successful they are and so far we’ve had some great results, so trying new things is really good advice. In our industry we can’t stand still and need to take leaps to make sure we are always getting the best results we can. Thanks for sharing this. Good luck with your career moving forward; it sounds like you’ll be a great asset to your team.

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1.0
27 Dec 2021
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Pros

They pay on time, which is a rarity and much appreciated.

Cons

I had an extremely negative experience freelancing for Neomam. I'm convinced that the company purposely writes vague briefs to trick freelancers into doing extra work. As a result, compensation is low. If you decide to freelance here, know that you'll be asked to make unrealistic changes and additions to projects. To make matters worse, requested changes are often contradictory and sometimes not even possible.

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NeoMam Studios Response
3y
I appreciate you taking the time to leave this review. We need feedback to improve how we work. And I'm sorry you felt we were manipulating the briefs to get you to work extra and that your hard work wasn't compensated accordingly. It is not unusual for briefs to change when we are working on the production of the content as sometimes what we hoped we would do doesn't match up with what we can in fact do. This requires us to adjust briefs and make changes on the fly, but budgets get adjusted too when these changes get signed off to ensure any freelancer working on the project won't need to absorb extra work without extra pay. Since you left your review, we have improved our briefing process to ensure every step is thoroughly tested and planned out. We have also allocated extra days to the different briefing stages to give time to every team lead to add as many notes, examples and wireframes as needed, depending on the complexity of the project. In addition to this, we have also adjusted our budgets for freelance specialists, increasing the pay rate across the board. Lastly, we have ironed out the internal testing and feedback stage to avoid multiple rounds of feedback, and we have built a process to bring edits in-house in specific cases not to overload freelance specialists when the edits needed are too many. We wish you best of luck in the future.
5.0
5 Feb 2018
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Pros

I've been freelancing as a copywriter with NeoMam on and off since last summer, but more regularly since November when I was made redundant from my full-time job. It's no exaggeration to say that this work has changed my life and saved me from financial meltdown when hard times hit. I've been doing freelance work in my spare time for a couple of years and mostly been paid peanuts, whereas NeoMam's pay makes me feel like what I'm doing is actually valued. They always pay on time and I've never had any problems in this regard, which is equally rare in the freelancing world. The projects are always interesting concepts that I enjoy researching and writing about and I've learned a lot both about the subjects and the process of creating powerful and insightful infographics through this work. Best of all, everyone I've dealt with is lovely, helpful, constructive in their advice and it's a pleasure to be a part of their organisation.

Cons

The only thing I could consider a downside is that after my first piece last summer, there wasn't any other work for a few months, but that's the nature of freelance work, especially when you're a new member of the team and they're still working out what your strengths are. That's a downside to every freelance job, so not a reflection on NeoMam.

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NeoMam Studios Response
8y
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience and your feedback. I'm very happy to read that the work means so much to you, we are very lucky to have you on our team. We are working on a more transparent way of sharing upcoming projects with freelance team members to help us set realistic expectations in terms of workload. Thank you for bringing that to our attention. It's brilliant to learn that you have enjoyed learning about all the different topics you've had to researched over this past year! One of our values is that we are curious about what we don't know and this is another example of team members living those values on a regular basis. Thanks again for your feedback!
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