Bad Reviews are exaggerated - Product Owner CreativeLive Employee Review

4.0
16 Apr 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Management were not as awful as some of the laid off reviewers led many to believe. Its understandable - being laid off was a bitter pill to swallow. I found management to be very transparent and honest about where we were and where we had to be in order to stay on coarse. So if you are looking for honest delivery and what I believed were good people then the folks at CL was good by me.

Cons

CL just ran out of runway at the same time VC backers took a different stance on how they defined growth. Yes - we may have changed our direction too late, but that doesn't make management bad people or navigating with bad intent - I believe they did what they did with best of intentions. Entitled employees can't take honesty for what it is because they don't like the truth. In this life and in business, you can not rest on what you did yesterday or last quarter or last year..if you do-your lunch will be eaten by someone else. We all know this....we may not like it, but deep down we know it.

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5.0
26 Nov 2022
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Pros

The best company I've worked at.

Cons

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5.0
26 Dec 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

CreativeLive really does a great job at empowering their employees to be successful. I love that they give me the tools to do my job, and give me full trust in my ability to execute and deliver. I also really love that I get to conceive and initiate new creative problem-solving projects on my own, and they tell me to just run with it. The challenges that we face are truly opportunities, and I am excited to see where we go. It's really a great company, and besides the (somewhat standard) growing-pains associated with a young company of this size, I feel like a valued member of an engaging and passionate team. Very cool fun, creative, and lively place to work.

Cons

As is often the case with startups, there is sometimes a sense that we are somewhat struggling to figure out our direction and plan. There is often a disconnect between departments, meaning that when one group is developing a new project, they don't consult with other teams that are inherent stakeholders (until the project is way down the line). There needs to be more avenues for facilitating collaboration and forward-thinking on certain major projects.

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