Does The Clever Factory pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, The Clever Factory employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at The Clever Factory. This rating has decreased by 4% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at The Clever Factory?

39% of The Clever Factory employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated The Clever Factory 2.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.5 for culture and values and 2.5 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at The Clever Factory?

Graphic Designer (21) , Designer (2) , Project Leader (2)

What are the pros of working at The Clever Factory according to real employee reviews?

"The people are great." ((in 9 reviews)); "Nice coworkers, big parking lot" ((in 3 reviews))

What are employees saying about The Clever Factory redundancies in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about The Clever Factory redundancy and their outlook for job security at The Clever Factory in 2026.

The Clever Factory Reviews

2.7

39% would recommend to a friend

(56 total reviews)

Andrew Hyde

49% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Company ratings over time

Ratings trend for the last 6 months (56 reviews)

The Clever Factory has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 56 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The The Clever Factory employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

56 reviews

1.0

24 May 2016

AVOID AT ALL COSTS! Quite possibly the worst place to work in Nashville!

Anonymous employee

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Pros

There are some pretty decent folks in the company that are fun to work with.

Cons

Don't fool yourself, all the negative reviews are 100% accurate. The positive reviews on here are written by management. They do not care about you and have zero respect for your personal time. It is rare that you are allowed to put in less than a 50 hour work week, and they will lie to you to get you in the door. The two salesmen OWN the place and do whatever they want, including talking down to you and making you look stupid in front of others. Many employees have compared it to being in an abusive relationship dealing with them. They have no firm grasp on what is needed to get their products designed and out the door but expect you to get it done and have it on their desk yesterday. There is way too much work for the employees they have and the turnover is higher than anywhere I have ever worked. As a result, no one really knows what they are doing and EVERYTHING gets behind. Avoid at all costs!

1.0

19 May 2016

It really is a "Factory" in every sense of the word

Anonymous employee

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Pros

Most of the designers are friendly because they are all in the same boat as far as being at the mercy of how terribly this company is run. There's a few attractive people there as well, though most are married or planning to be: if nothing else a good bit of eye candy. Every now and then there will be donuts in the cramped breakroom.

Cons

The place is an absolute hole where management does not care in the slightest about designers and their personal lives. If you are fine with working over every night then work here, but if you value having a life outside of work then avoid this doomed company at all costs. Once calculated, you will stay over so much here that you'll end up making about minimum wage and no matter how hard you work, overtime is unavoidable. It really is like woking in a factory because as a designer your job is to churn out designs as quickly as possible without any consideration for well designed products, which is ironic considering how difficult it can be to get a call back if interviewed there. The tunover rate is so astronomical that in the short while I worked there over 25 people had quit, including myself. The management is always at odds with each other and the two clueless salesmen at the company have all the say and constantly change their minds which results in more work being stacked upon the lowly designers, not to mention how very little the salesmen understand about design in general. They are nothing more than yes men with little regard with how much work will be stacked onto the designers. They have a knack for making all their presentations due at once, which results in 57 hr work weeks. If you end up working here and experience normal work hours consider yourself lucky, you were brought in during a slow period and turbulent waters are only a few weeks away. You also don't even get Easter or Christmas eve off at the ol' Factory.

1.0

24 Jan 2016

Beware.

Graphic designer

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Pros

Some nice people in the company. Nice, but Overworked, and there's a lot of constant but warranted complaining. At least they stick together in their hate.

Cons

ok, there's a 20 word minimum. Too much to say here. Unless this will be your first job (or you're really desperate), don't do it. All of the things said in other testimonies on here are 100% true. No one communicates about staying late, and you always stay late. Once we didn't get work until 5pm and had to stay until 9pm. You only get Christmas day off. They will ask you to work through lunch and dinner. The salaries are a joke. If you factor in all of the extra hours you WILL work, you'll be earning less than minimum wage.

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