CIDC Reviews

Former Employee – worked at CIDC full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great people, great environment, satisfying work

Cons – CIDC is being closed down by its parent company. There is no future.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at CIDC full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great culture, flexible schedule, smart passionate people, fun work

Cons – The parent company in France didn't know how to direct the company and made too much swing on the goal. I wish they listen to the Cambridge management and let the upper management here in US be in control earlier.

Advice to Senior Management – Wish the parent company can learn the lesson.

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at CIDC full-time

Pros – The employees were its best assets. They were committed to see the company succeed. Management was cognizant of work/life balance. Flexibility in allowing employees to work remotely when needed.

Cons – External market forces caused profitability to suffer. Questionable decisions were made by some members of Senior Management (who were not familiar with our core business) that ended up costing the company financially and set the table for its decline. There was a perceived lack of support from our European parent company.

Advice to Senior Management – Too late now... but if they (our parent company) left our Senior Management in place instead of bringing in inexperienced managers we would still be viable.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at CIDC full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great culture and great colleagues

Cons – CIDC is no longer in operation

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at CIDC full-time for more than a year

Pros – Everybody at CIDC pulls together, and is a joy to work with. I have never felt more friendly with my co-workers than I did there.

Cons – Upper management was completely unable to determine a goal for the company, and repeatedly switched among them multiple times just in my ~2.5 years there.

Advice to Senior Management – You've got smart people, listen to them and let them innovate.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at CIDC full-time for more than a year

Pros – Opportunity to learn new things

Cons – Leadership on all levels has no accountability

Advice to Senior Management – Learn from your mistakes

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at CIDC full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – great co-workers, fun industry and good location

Cons – tough marketplace - company is in financial trouble

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at CIDC full-time for more than a year

Pros – People are nice and fun to work with.

Cons – Senior management has no direction.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at CIDC

Pros – The culture and the people are superb here, there is always something fun going on.

HR are the most engaged, available and helpful I have encountered.

Talented, passionate and engaged people

Agile environment

Fun!

New direction of the company lead by a CEO that knows what he is doing

Cons – The Online gambling industry is in turmoil. It could be a tough few years but if the US market opens up it will be exciting

Some management have not accepted the Agile transformation nor the need to keep up with the industry in terms of their technology.

Advice to Senior Management – Consider injecting some new blood in to the management/executive level to re-energize the company in terms of fresh ideas and approaches.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CIDC

Pros – Good benefits
Product are exciting (Online Poker and Casino)
Good opportunities for employee to grow
Huge potential for growth (US) in the coming years

Cons – Market are tough right now in Europe, everyone is waiting for the US to regulate, but the strategy about it is not extremely clear.
Top management changes too often, complete lack of decision between June and October 2011
Integration with the sister companies of the group is tough.

Advice to Senior Management – In 2011 Group decisions were very disruptive for the company, multiple change of top management, reorganization, ...
Aymeric provided a good dynamic to the company and made meaningful changes but struggled with Group decisions that was not clear and constantly changing.
The company need some stability at the top management level.
The company need to improve the middle management

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend