UpShift Creative Group Reviews

3.5

69% would recommend to a friend

(8 total reviews)

Richard Shanks

100% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.6

Diversity and inclusion

3.6

Compensation and benefits

3.3

Career opportunities

2.9

Culture and values

2.8

Work/Life balance

2.8

Senior management

Reviews by job title

8 reviews

5.0

21 Jun 2021

So far its been very good

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

I have had no bad experiences at all, its been so helpful being able to work when I am available. Being able to work some to bring in extra money for summer fun is the best idea and is working out.

Cons

I have nkt had any bad experiences, I will update if I do have any bad or negative experiences.

3.0

11 Oct 2020

Nil

Sales associate

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Very good very food goo

Cons

Okay not so bad can do

5.0

8 Dec 2019

Strong stable company, common agency pain points

Web developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Excellent design. The design team and principals produce concepts that are top-of-class or near-to. They make anything look beautiful, only sometimes looking dated or with recognizable habits. I saw a lot of competing work in both print and web that UpShift handily outclasses. Expectations for code were mostly end-focused. This means that there's lots of freedom in how devs set up shop to make sites. Supervisors worked with me to elect specific tools and goals to measure performance and other success metrics, so there was strong ownership in how I identified what made my web apps "good." There are a few parameters (some reasonable, some consequence of role), that result in becoming a "T-shaped" developer with a webmaster-like skillset: code-adjacent tasks like typical DNS and host work, some VPS management, occasionally dealing with other weird multi-role external systems. I was able to assist with and advise a lot of client IT teams this way. Leadership is flexible. Partners accommodated most requests. Most operational issues or grievances could be resolved with a few minutes of conversation. Weekly Show and Tell is a recent great idea. This could be expanded to less frequent team demos to show more involved work or "here's what I learned" types of presentations.

Cons

UpShift is far from perfect, but I think the most negative reviews here come from net bad hires with mismatched expectations. Resistance from the top to some changes. Partners challenged proposals to transition to web design-focused software. It would expectedly cause growing pains in adapting to using different apps between print and web, but using InDesign for web design felt antiquated compared to using any of the modern web design apps. Resistance from design team to some modern practices. There wasn't a lot of focus on adapting for accessibility after the news and client wave of ADA/WCAG issues. It wasn't that hard to figure out how to create and measure web and design items for accessibility, but there are missed opportunities on simple items text contrast over background colors. Accessible websites might seem like overkill, but it's only a little more research and tweaks to the way websites are built for a characteristic that makes the work much more professional and into world-class. Resistance from web team to more modern practices. Limited use of code repositories resulted in some in-house plugins and redistributed code being difficult to track across different projects.

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