Not worth the stress - Anonymous Inc. Magazine Employee Review

2.0
17 Oct 2020
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Pros

-Casual office vibe, nothing pretentious -A few people on the team were really great and added some relief to long, stressful days. Definitely a place where you can find solace and help in co-worker friendship. Overall the team was nice and down-to-earth as well. -Management and senior editors were usually open to allowing entry-level employees and interns to work on big stories if they really pushed for it.

Cons

-This job completely turned me off from working in media/journalism. I took a hard pivot in my career path after quitting. -Management was difficult to read/get along with; sometimes friendly and sometimes intimidating. -Long, long days with the constant stress of churning out articles and maintaining both a live website and print magazine. Never a down moment to breathe or create quality work. It was common to see folks taking work home due to the sheer amount. Poor work/life balance. -All non-senior employees were extremely underpaid and consistently denied raises/promotions they deserved. But also this isn't anything really out of the ordinary in the media/journalism industry. -Lots of restructuring/organizational changes that would happen behind the scenes while leaving staff in the dark. Until suddenly there would be a big meeting announced out of nowhere to communicate the changes.

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5.0
17 May 2021
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Pros

easy culture people are nice about taking time off!

Cons

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1.0
9 Dec 2024
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Pros

- Union membership for most staff members - Decent benefits

Cons

- Terrible management from the top down. Stephanie is herself a good leader, but seems to find it impossible to hold her C-suite reports accountable even when they have demonstrated themselves to be both incompetent and destructive to team morale. - Nothing is ever communicated clearly or well. Deadlines are moved, stories are changed, without even a “fyi.” Company policies are announced out of nowhere or are completely contradictory to employee wishes. - Absolutely garbage performance review process. You’re told a year after the fact what the expectations for your job actually were—and of course, those expectations will change again six months later. The company also actively discourages managers from leaving positive reviews, so employees are left discouraged and unrecognized. - A general culture of snippiness, passive aggression, and nastiness, sometimes devolving into outright hostility. - All the senior managers seem more concerned with checking Twitter or talking about the latest cool story they read (because everyone needs to know how erudite and in-the-know they are!!) than actually managing, developing, and supporting their people.

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