CreativeHub Reviews

Unfortunately, Creativehub has seen a drastic decline in recent times, especially in 2024. The company suffered significant losses due to poor business decisions and financial mismanagement. What's worse than the decline itself is how it was handled. Starting the year with over 55 employees, by mid-2024, the team had dwindled to just 8. The neglect began when the founder relocated to the US, leaving the Sri Lankan operations in disarray and morale plummeting among the team there. Another critical misstep was the CEO appointing his wife (a former micro-biologist), to head HR, finance, and operations. While skills can be learned on the job and one's qualifications are secondary as is the startup norm, her more than undesirable attitude and massive ego issue left the functions she was in charge of in a very bad place. She consistently neglected basic responsibilities, citing her lack of HR background, even after months on the job. Team leads in the end had to step up to cover for her shortcomings, throwing in the extra hours to take up, handling recruitment and finances due to her inefficiency. What's more, invoices were not shared on time, hence payments were delayed, client relationships suffered, and basic employee needs were neglected, turning the workplace into what felt like a sweatshop. The layoffs were perhaps the most ghastly act. Nearly 20 dedicated team members were let go with just a 30-day notice, and left wondering about their future, some after years of loyal service. There was no compensation, which is legally required in such situations. Instead, the CEO requested permanent staff to resign voluntarily, masking the company's responsibility for the downturn. Creativehub's decline reflects severe leadership failures, miscalculated and rushed decision-making, neglect of operational basics, and a disregard for employee welfare, tarnishing its once-strong reputation as a hub of innovation and collaboration.

The heads who run the business have no domain expertise, their backgrounds and education might surprise you. And also it's a place where cheap labour is at it's peak, you'll always see posts for internship positions and 50% of the workforce are just bare interns. The pressure you'll be facing as an intern will push you to the verge of collapse. Improvements and feedbacks at meetings are taken as criticism. Adamant boss who doesn't know anything on IT and product development. Has a bunch of useless products in its portfolio with 0 clients and those products are the reason for the downfall of the company. Ran a dev team like a marketing team. Literally a red flag of a company if you are an SE or SSE.