Does Zeekee Interactive pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Zeekee Interactive employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Zeekee Interactive. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Zeekee Interactive?

54% of Zeekee Interactive employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Zeekee Interactive 3.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.3 for culture and values and 3.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Zeekee Interactive?

Programmer (4) , Developer (3) , Account Executive (2)

What are the pros of working at Zeekee Interactive according to real employee reviews?

"The employees are genuine people who really care about their work." ((in 5 reviews)); "Awesome coworkers" ((in 3 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Zeekee Interactive according to real employee reviews?

"Management also has a very very clear vision to what they want the company to be! ( yes this is listed twice and can be seen as a con if your vision is to be a large project boutique company)" ((in 4 reviews)); "The CEO's constant tirades and temper tantrums were, at times, entertaining, but mostly just sad and somewhat terrifying to watch or be a part of." ((in 4 reviews)); "Do not expect any benefits that normal companies offer, and expect to work like a dog for very poor compensation." ((in 3 reviews))

Zeekee Interactive Reviews

3.1

54% would recommend to a friend

(33 total reviews)

54% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.3

Culture and values

3.3

Work/Life balance

3.2

Career opportunities

3.1

Senior management

2.9

Compensation and benefits

Zeekee Interactive has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Zeekee Interactive employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

33 reviews

1.0

16 Mar 2015

Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here

Anonymous employee

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Pros

Complete strangers who survive disasters are brought together and might become lifelong friends. That's sort of what working at Zeekee is like. You will bond and make some of the best friends of your life because you faced down an absolute evil that might possibly have consumed your soul. All kidding aside, working at Zeekee is terrible and there are no pros except the non-management staff people who work the trenches with you, ducking the toxic words and attitude of anyone in charge. You get free tickets and other products related to what the clients do. But that's mostly because some of the projects are paid for "in trade." The employees are genuine people who really care about their work. It's not their fault they have to accept projects from anyone with a little money to spend or product to trade.

Cons

The terrible work environment and negativity can be traced to one or two of the people in management that has infected everyone else in any role of authority. It's like a corrupting force that spreads to people who would normally be very nice (I've run into a manager since my time there who started work at a different company and I thought he was a completely different person because he didn't seem like the harsh man I had to deal with). Zeekee management has zero ethics when it comes to the work they do, and they force their staff to do the same.

2.0

20 Jul 2015

A Place that Needs a Lot of Help

Anonymous employee

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Pros

As an employee at Zeekee, your fellow workers in the pit can be your best friends. The support team has some of the nicest folks you'll meet, who gracefully deal with (inevitably) irritated clients. The design team is stifled by management, but has always been very talented and try to create inspired work when they can. Not to mention, they are loyal and helpful to their coworkers. The developers are smart, friendly and capable, albeit stifled by the outdated methods pushed by the management.

Cons

*Note: I consider myself an optimist who tries to see the best in people, appreciate what I have, and give people the benefit of the doubt. Zeekee has a lot of potholes that need filling, and sadly, during my time there, I struggled to find where they were actually being fixed. > On the management side: the management, while not all bad, often talks down to its employees, and generally creates a difficult environment to thrive in. If your style is to keep your head down, and never progress or grow, then Zeekee would be a fine choice for you. The CEO, when he is actually in the office, spends his time in one of two ways: in a closed door meeting (where he may or may not be tearing someone a new one), or pacing through the main work area, hovering over employees and watching over their shoulders, which becomes very uncomfortable. (This happens a lot.) > On the design side: The CEO and CTO, who both have absolutely zero eye for good design, staunchly believe they know more than the Zeekee design team about it--which is absurd, and often becomes disheartening and disrespectful. They are both totally unafraid to tell these designers that their work is "poor design," not knowing whether or not this is actually true. A designer's skin should be thick, not scarred. > On the development side: Zeekee frequently stifles its development team by using a custom CMS which was created, and is maintained, by one man. It would be easier and smarter to have the dev team use one of the massively successful (and 100% free) CMS's maintained by scores of capable developers every day. Zeekee's in-house CMS makes life difficult for developers on a daily basis and causes problems for clients as well. Not to mention that its use by only one agency means there's little-to-no documentation or training tools for someone learning to use it or fix a difficult issue within it. > On the support side: everything feels like it's on the support team's shoulders, which is unfair to everyone. One of the CEO's only daily concerns is keeping a low support ticket count, the unparalleled priority of which creates countless problems for almost the entire Zeekee staff.

1.0

6 Jun 2014

"That left a bad taste in my mouth". Understaffed, Dated, Un-professional and Immature.

Anonymous employee

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Pros

Opportunity to be successful if you do not mind sacrificing your morals, standards, judgements, and educational direction as well as growth with in your industry or field of career path. Opportunity to move up and lateral in the company because of the amount of hires, fires, and walk offs.

Cons

Poor management, dated technologies, unrealistic clients, overbearing and stressful expectations, ambiguous and mostly counteractive standards of business and internal functionality. Lack of transparency with in a very close quarters work environment. Rampant individualism and competitive declining mind sets of a divided workforce.

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