Kennington Creative Group Reviews

- Management that had no respect for their employees or suppliers. - A toxic atmosphere to work in that made you doubt your own abilities, even when staff had usually done a great job on no time or money. - Bad and under-qualified management that worked the staff into the ground. The work/life balance didn't exist - if you weren't working (which is rare as people were expected to work days, nights and weekends, sometimes for weeks without a day off), your body was too ruined to do anything but sleep and recover. - Management wasted thousands of pounds on pointless parties for clients (that clients rarely came to more than once) and pro bono work for a large charity (giving that specific charity free films year after year, right up to the present day!), despite owing HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF POUNDS to suppliers. - Poor facilities to work in (airflow/daylight etc - a massive lack of). - You got a ‘promotion’ after working yourself into the ground (and begging for MONTHS for the promotion), but didn’t actually get the pay rise until you ‘proved yourself’ in your new role for a year to management - this is purely so they don't have to give you the pay rise that you've earned for as long as possible. - Even if you proved yourself, you then had to pass a LUDICROUS ‘exam’ about the company, that the management had written themselves. If you failed that exam you had to wait MONTHS before you were allowed to take it again, thus delaying your well earned pay rise further. - They didn’t pay freelancers unless they threaten legal action - EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. - It was a boys club at management level - women weren't respected by management. - They used staff (particularly filmmakers/producers) as their own private bank overdraft, and expected staff to spend their own money to facilitate shoots, then didn’t pay back the staff for MONTHS for those expenses. As a result, you never actually received your full PITTANCE of a monthly salary. - The ‘Finance department’ (who are completely under-qualified) are aggressive to suppliers and freelancers when they queried late payment. - They expected filmmakers to drive a company van that was WAY past its sell by date - it often broke down, miles away from London, causing huge grief for staff to deal with themselves. - Management is obsessed with James Bond (hence the terrible company name) - their dated attitudes to women reflected their Bond obsession. - The toilets would often overflow due to poor maintenance. - There was NO staff room for lunch and breaks.

Its clear from other reviews that the cons of working for this business are common and felt by a heavy proportion of former and current staff. The cons far outweigh the pro's and make it a difficult place to work and progress a career for some. - The average wage is far below the industry standard and also what is expected of people. Pay rises are very hard to get, even after completing pointless skillset documents. - Long working hours are inevitable because they refuse to resource with additional staff to manage the project load. - Work is taken on at an alarming rate to fill gaps in cash flow at the expensive of staffs health and happiness. - They have an appalling reputation in the industry for paying low rates for freelances and and then not paying them at all. They cannot hide from the fact that everyone in the industry knows they don't pay and therefore this usually affects the quality of freelancers that agree to work for them. - The accounts department are under-qualified and have no procedure for dealing with late payments and communicating with freelancers, so they usually ignore their calls and emails. As many have stated, freelancers chase for sometimes years to get paid. - The owner of the business is not only completely out of touch with the industry; refusing to consider new ways of doing things to drive his business in a positive direction, but has been witnessed making sexist and inappropriate comments towards staff. - They forced staff to drive faulty vehicles to save having to pay for safe vehicles.