Absolutely zero leadership - Anonymous employee The Washington Post Employee Review

1.0
5 Mar 2013
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people that do the actual work are great people. The tech side of the house is actually filled with very intelligent people.

Cons

Leadership is astoundingly bad. There's 0 vision for the company, other than trying to maintain what's left of print circulation. Projects are started and killed a year later despite success. There's no rhyme or reason to anything. Watch massive layoffs to hit the operating income (100's of people), and then the publisher will take a $3million bonus for hitting the target. The industry is only getting worse, and there are absolutely zero plans in progress to address the downward spiral. At this point Don is treating the company like a charity, not a business.

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