CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Reviews

Pros

Good pay, good benefits, good pensions.

Cons

No room to grow. Constantly under the gun from the Feds. Hard to get job promotion unless you are good at the political games.

Advice to Senior Management

Employee advancement program would be nice.

Pros

Amazing end product
great benefits and salary
Some really interesting people
Have opportunities to experience really interesting events/shows/ etc.

Cons

There is a tolerance for complaining and maintaining the "way things are"
Talented people get buried under Red-tape and politics
Everyone wants to be heard, but not willing to work together to get things done.

Advice to Senior Management

Make people accountable for their decisions.

Pros

Excellent environment and conscious manager that know the balance between work and life

Cons

No room for growing and seniority go first than performance

Pros

great workplace to work for

Cons

slow promotions and red tape

Advice to Senior Management

promote fast and pay good salaries to all the people. Only then you get great people to work for in the company

Pros

You get to see and do a lot of interesting things and work with some of the most knowledgeable people in the business.

Cons

The CBC has far too many managers and but enough staff to handle the workload. Combined with bad planning and demands for work to be turned around immediately with no budget or time available to do it has caused burnout and frustration to rise.

Advice to Senior Management

The departure of the VP of English Services represents a rare opportunity for the CBC to move in the right direction. Please don't waste it.

Pros

- good benefits
- range of opportunities available (if you pursue them hard yourself)

Cons

- continual management changes mean wholesale changes every 5 years or so
- constant budget problems

Advice to Senior Management

reward your employees, and listen to them. don't make enormous changes just because focus groups tell you to.

Pros

There is never a dull day at CBC; lots of opportunity to learn and grow.

Cons

Extraordinarily political, to the point where it feels like the way you do your job may be less important than how well you manage "up".

Advice to Senior Management

Need to encourage mid level manegement to take risks without fear of reprisal.

Pros

I love my job at the Corp. I've been given the opportunity to work in many areas... My experience has been great here at CBC.

Cons

Little opportunity for advancement. Prefer to higher from outside than promote talent from within. Decision making gridlock at the management levels.

Advice to Senior Management

There are many good people in the organization, but few of them are at the director level or above. Many of those brought in from outside have little understanding of the corporation's history or culture, and would rather force the organization to suit them than adjust themselves to fit the organization. It seems the higher you go up the ladder, the more insecurity and micromanaging you encounter. Ultimately, your input and ideas and insights are not wanted--the vision and values and strategies are all formed at the very top (or offsite) without any employee participation, and even the most well paid and talented people simply follow their orders, or else.

Pros

Stay if one decides to retire from there.

Cons

Flexible working hours, VPN access (to be able to work from home).

Advice to Senior Management

Invest some bucks to get commerical software and good support.

Pros

If "public service" has an attraction. In theory Job security is an asset. The potential excitement of the side benefits of media, music, entertainment etc. It's overrated. Some very good people often vastly underused.

Cons

under the gun from the federal government constantly. Very insecure funding. Leadership and upper management seems to be almost invisible. Silos along linguistic and other power games prevent the CBC from ever actually being a complete broadcaster. the metric for valuation when it comes to the product that CBC generates is sometimes way off base. What business is CBC in? If you ask 10 people inside the building, you'll get 10 different answers.

Advice to Senior Management

continue to look outside to renew the corporate culture. Change the reward paradigm. Success should not be "overachieving" an end result that was vastly undershot as a target!...it happens all the time and no one questions it. The bar needs to be higher with the goals need to be obvious and achievable.