Pros
Check Glassdoor's Creative Group (cg.nl) reviews, this company did a rebranding + renaming in 2020! - excellent lunch - friendly, eager fresh graduates - interesting field of business If you have up to 3 years work experience and you want to have nice, international colleagues and experience a rollercoaster (chaotic) start-up, try your luck. If you have 3+ years work experience and you take your position seriously, read on.
Cons
- employee turn-over is extremely high !!! (With 3-5 people leaving every month) - during my time with the company, more than 7 people to my knowledge were away with burn-outs (out of 100 people) - very bad (below market) salaries - no appreciation from top management for hard work or talent - culture that rewards aggression and big-mouthing - people with good expertise that are not aggressive are side-lined until they leave - nepotism and managers hiring their friends (mostly former Emesa) - CEO that does not care about employees or the well-being of the teams and doesn't even talk to them (fun-fact: in his short company announcements, he often mentions management books, but it seems like he doesn't read them himself) - real problems are not addressed and shoved under the rug - all top management is male and very Dutch, and they don't bother to include non-Dutch employees in discussions - for a fast-growing company, people works incredibly slow, and there is a 9-4(!) mentality - lack of ownership and clear responsibilities - decision making is either very slow, or irrational and immediate, purely based on coffee-machine talk, lacking facts or analysis - disbalance of employees: on the one hand, the company has too many people in certain teams (usually very junior/cheap people) and misses key expertise and managers in other teams (the senior experts/ expensive people) - lack of innovation, creativity, daring to try. the company rewards people that don't ask difficult questions and do the comfort-zone work (making the company value 'love change' a fraud)
