Dow Jones Reviews

Pros

- Immersive on-the-job experience for recent grad coming out of college
- You will learn a lot
- Great benefits - 401K, vacation time
- Great colleagues

Cons

- Pay low compared to competitors
- Difficult to move up and around the company; challenging if you want to stay and grow as a professional

Advice to Senior Management

The company as a whole is very siloed. Top management needs to respect all employees more, rather than sending generic corporate emails that reveal little of the company's actual position in the market. There must be more opportunity to retain and develop employees.

Pros

Previous Management was good and worked well with employees and consultants.

Cons

New lower managements is not competent to handle employees. the morale is really down.

Pros

vacation, flexibility, people, fun, location

Cons

recognition, advancement, praise, too many systems

Advice to Senior Management

recognize talent you have before it's too late and they leave. concentrate on everyone equally, promote fairly.

Pros

excellent vacation days, generous salary, onsite cafeteria, onsite daycare, onsite gym, lounge area in lobby, modern internior

Cons

Inexperienced management and not afraid to throw you under the bus. Dow Jones hires and promotes people with no experience whatsoever. They overlook people with experience for those with none. Inexperience managers bark orders at their employees rather than talk to them as humans. They are not honest, nor transparent. They show favoritism and refuse to see the truth even when it hits them in the face. HR is a joke. They talk down to you rather than at you. HR constantly makes mistakes and clueless when you need their help. They constantly bounce you from one person to another because no one wants to help you. No one is accountable for their actions. They blame everyone else but themselves and won't hesitate to throw you under the bus.

Advice to Senior Management

Work on ethics. Strive to train managers on how to be good managers. Teach employees to be accountable for their actions. Go through an HR transformation to make it better and bring on experience managers to make Dow Jones a better company. Stop hiring and promoting people with no experience.

Pros

Pay was very good there.

Cons

Awful, over priced products, poor on-boarding process.

Advice to Senior Management

Too many chiefs, not enough indians.

Pros

Pay, opportunities for growth, vacation time

Cons

Everything is automated or need to call India to get the simpliest things done

Advice to Senior Management

My people that are local instead of outsourcing

Pros

Smart people who are media and digital savvy

Cons

Lots of red tape and bureaucracy

Pros

The benefits are okay. The vacation policy is comparable. There is an onsite gym. There is an onsite day care center.

Cons

The management are self absorbed 'mean girls' They have no idea what it means to motivate employees. The culture is rudeness and throw everyone under the bus, because no one is accountable. HR is a joke.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to get a clue and a shot of empathy. So out of touch with employee it's a joke. Get some HR strategy.

Pros

Great pay
excellent benefits
great coworkers
great hours for a college student

Cons

Management criticizes more then praises.

Advice to Senior Management

More praise

Pros

Your schedule is usually set in stone save for vacations. Additionally as a pressman your working with a majority of "salt of the Earth" type of people. Pay is competitive and benefits are great.

Cons

After Murdoch's takeover of Dow Jones, we were switching to technology to make us more efficient. Unfortunately high level execs did not want a pressman's perspective on how the tech could be made better or how it could be improved. Pay and benefits are great, but you're opinion is not valued.

Advice to Senior Management

Management could take more time to listen to advice on how te h could be improved. Additionally it would be a good idea to try and find other print productions that could be contracted out by a DJ workshop.