Cumulus Media Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Cumulus Media part-time for less than a year

Pros – Meet a lot different people

Cons – No room for improvement or pay raise.

Advice to Senior Management – Expand offices

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Cumulus Media full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Culture/Co-Workers
- Industry
- Office Location and space (Corporate HQ)
- Exposure to C-Level Executives and upper management
- Entertainment perks

Cons – - Cumulus does A LOT with very little. It's hard to say a company with 5,000+ employees is lean, but it is.
- Work/life balance is non-existent.
- Health Insurance is very poor. 401k does match a certain %.
- Compensation is far below industry standards for similar positions
- Some departments lack key technology piecees to maintain organization
- My job description changed several times without word or a change in pay
- Professional development, coaching and room for advancement was lacking

Advice to Senior Management – Compensate your employees for their work and effort. I knew too many individuals that had similar complaints, while their counterparts doing the same work were paid nearly double that of their peer. I would also advise paying attention to earnings reports. They definitely will tell you which direction the company outlook is trending.

Current Employee – been working at Cumulus Media part-time for more than a year

Pros – Opportunity to do what you enjoy, if you want to be a broadcaster. It's a paycheck... albeit a crappy one.

E-mailed Lew Dickey once to tell him how horribly run our cluster of stations was. He returned my e-mail within 12 hours.

Cons – The company prides itself on being nothing more than (I'm paraphrasing) "people and used radio equipment." The equipment typically sucks unless you get into really big markets. Typically corporate radio sales garbage requiring you to watch hours of training videos when you could be out selling.

Advice to Senior Management – Your company is broken, fix it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cumulus Media full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – They provide you with a vast amount of research and ready to use custom proposals for a multitude of industry categories along with tools to track your daily activities to keep you honest and accurate while navigating through the sales process. You do have to work hard if you expect to be rewarded as with any endeavor but if you are a dedicated hard worker you can and will succeed in this company. I have been with the company since it acquired our stations and have been rewarded with monthly recognitions along with monetary prizes and promotions due to my dedication and continued hard work.

Cons – There are a lot of meetings; however as seasoned as you think you are everyone needs consistent reminders and back to the basics training to remain at the top of your game.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to teach the systems in place and how they will benefit the sales team the more we adopt the systems and tools that are at our disposal.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Cumulus Media as an intern for less than a year

Pros – The internship is with their promotions department, so you will be working with primarily one or two of their stations. You work at concerts and events all over Atlanta, so you will get to see a lot of bands. The work is easy and each event lasts anywhere between 4 and 12 hours.

Cons – This internship is really for those who want to work for the company. The awkward hours can make juggling school or another job difficult, but it's not impossible. This internship is all about soft skills, so it helps if you're personable and approachable. The relationship with the other interns and employees is very important.

Advice to Senior Management – The interns need more responsibilities. Most of my office days were spent with me staring at the decade old computer waiting for Microsoft Word to load. I was usually finished with my work by noon, and just walked around the office looking for something to do.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cumulus Media full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – freedom to assertain clients and lead qualifications

Cons – not much to say just beware

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Cumulus Media as an intern for less than a year

Pros – The radio industry is exciting at times. My particular boss during my internship was very nice, understanding, and seemed to genuinely want to help me learn.

Cons – Work felt redundant. Other business units seemed to have no interest in getting to know interns at the office, despite my attempts. Unpaid.

Advice to Senior Management – Create an internship program instead of letting each department hire their own. Make it more structured so interns are exposed to more than one area and feel that they're actually making a difference at the company.

Former Employee – worked at Cumulus Media full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Employees are great and easy to get along with.

Cons – Communication between sales staff, management and other staff needs work

Advice to Senior Management – Try to motivate better, be positive, communicate better

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cumulus Media full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – People are great to work with, get an office, can work remotely if need be and work schedule is very flexible.

Cons – There have been salary increases (well, it went down then back up to where I am now) and health benefits are terrible. They switched to a High Deductible Health Plan with and HSA which is not very friendly for a large family.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to increase communication between mgmt and workers, no salary reviews, no leadership, either.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cumulus Media full-time for more than a year

Pros – Not a lot of things to say

Cons – Under paid, everything based on bottom line

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company