Soap Creative Reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)

41% positive business outlook

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2.0
19 Mar 2018

Talented crew badly mismanaged (SMG Studio)

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Really smart artists and developers. Very creative and easy-going people. Nice location of office. Used to have fun events and team-building culture.

Cons

SMG Studio has little hierarchy which makes it hard to know who is in charge of what. Key members have left the team making it hard to recommend as a stable work environment for new joiners. Lack of vision as management turn the ship on a whim.

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Soap Creative Response
8y
Ash here just want to respond as I find these anon reviews hard sometimes. Note: We'd always like to receive this feedback directly and discuss as many times we have decisions can be explained and issues resolved. But overall I feel responsible and disappointed you have had this experience with us. To clarify: We've lost 3 good people over the last 12 months and from the team of ~20 that's expected, we cant keep everyone especially when so talented. It's always disappointing though. Happy to say most who leave go onto big things and leave better than when they joined. We also pay above the industry average. Have you spoken to other game studios or your peers? I feel we've above the industry. We also have some of the more generous incentives such as the extra week of annual leave, paternity leave for the dads and much more. And for lack of vision... It's been a issue with me on the communication but we've done pretty well so far and taking a longer term view on things + being able to zig/zag when needed is critical to staying around. But this industry changes so fast it's also easy to think we're making decisions on a whim. It's hard not to take this criticism personally and we're always trying to get better at the people skills. I hope you can have a better experience in the future or speak to us directly to try and resolve these.
2.0
21 Apr 2014

Great coworkers but poor management with overblown egos

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The best part about Soap Creative in Dallas was working with very smart and talented people.

Cons

The cons largely center around management/leadership. Management acts a lot like they're in high school and if you do not follow their idea of what Soap is (bro-culture) then you have no place there. They have self-inflated egos and often act petty. Their negative actions are transparent, yet they think that they are smarter than everyone else. It is insulting.

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Soap Creative Response
10y
Sorry to hear this. As the original founder of Soap in Australia hearing stuff like this makes me sad. Please note this review is for a company now called Ludomade, which still operates in the USA with the same CEO and much the same team. Soap no longer has an office in the USA and the USA office was separate to the Australian operation. You can find Ludomade's Glass Door account on the site which amazingly has all positive reviews. I'd appreciate if the review could be removed and reposted to Ludomade to properly reflect who you are reviewing as it's out of my control to do anything about it and the Soap name should have nothing to do with such a review. cheers Ash (Soap Founder in Sydney)
1.0
20 Dec 2013

Terrible management ruins what could be a great company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

High profile clients, some interesting projects

Cons

Paranoid and over-controlling management, lack of communication from the top down, no opportunity for advancement (by design), unappreciative of individual contributions, lack of trust and respect for employees, employees are fired without warning and without performance feedback or reviews. Non-flexible work hours with 9am - 6pm being the mandatory core hours.

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Soap Creative Response
10y
Sorry to hear this. As the original founder of Soap in Australia hearing stuff like this makes me sad. Please note this review is for a company now called Ludomade, which still operates in the USA with the same CEO and much the same team. Soap no longer has an office in the USA and the USA office was separate to the Australian operation. You can find Ludomade's Glass Door account on the site which amazingly has all positive reviews. I'd appreciate if the review could be removed and reposted to Ludomade to properly reflect who you are reviewing as it's out of my control to do anything about it and the Soap name should have nothing to do with such a review. cheers Ash (Soap Founder in Sydney)
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