Fox Entertainment Reviews

Pros

,good experience!would work there again

Cons

Long hours,not enough overtime money

Advice to Senior Management

Be more flexible

Pros

Great people, great environment (working on the studio lot). Competent senior staff.

Cons

Opportunities for advancement are limited.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more areas for advancement.

Pros

Luckily I had a great boss who was supportive and acted as a mentor who helped my professional growth and development.

Cons

General distrust of parent company. HR wasn't always viewed as a resource to provide support to it's employees... Too much politics. Very "top heavy" with executives paid generously while those of us having to do the grunt work weren't paid competitively.

Pros

Great content created; good group of employees; very little bureaucracy compared to other studios in town; not a lot of busywork

Cons

No jobs being added, only replacement of attrition; doesn't have its digital house in order; still plenty of favoritism/nepotism at the top levels

Advice to Senior Management

Take even bigger risks than you already are; don't feel burned by the FIM/Myspace errors, keep forging a strong digital path

Pros

Entertainment industry is fun, get to watch tv

Cons

boring , do the same thing everyday,

Advice to Senior Management

More Vaca days

Pros

great team to work with

Cons

a lot of stress; have to be constantly updated to newest entertainment headlines

Advice to Senior Management

Great management

Pros

Great place for entry level positions.

Cons

Limited upward mobility and job growth.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to adopt best practices across all divisions.

Pros

Great benefits. Fun work location. Interesting to walk through a studio lot and see them film TV shows. If you like super fast paced, then this is a great place to work. Opportunities to work on cutting, and occasionally bleeding, edge technology.

At the non-management level, most people are pretty nice and competent.

Co-worker scandals, showing up drunk/high, screaming obscenities...these are tolerated once you are "in" the right circle.

Cons

While in a HR training class on performance reviews I asked, in front of the class, why the performance review process does not apply to Executive Management (VP+).

The instructor responded, "Executive Management all got together and decided they don't need to be reviewed."

Wow.

Advice to Senior Management

Bring in an outside management consulting company to evaluate how your company makes decisions. Also look seriously at the competencies of your executive management.

Pros

Lots of employee activities offered, great summer activities, on-campus day care and work out facilities - really employee morale focused. People work hard but feel appreciated.

Cons

Would like to see more focus on diversity.

Advice to Senior Management

Aside from the suggestion to focus more on diversity (recruitment and retention on the corporate level - not just on the creative/production side), keep up the good work!

Pros

Overall Fox is an entertainment company that is in the game to win. I have found it encourages cross division collaboration and good ideas, for the most part, can be acted upon.

Cons

Perhaps it is an imperative in the current state of the domestic economy, however, the lean nature of the organization means there is a lack of financial support to really support the brands - not only in promotional dollars, but also in the number of staff needed to execute.

Advice to Senior Management

Fox Entertainment is, overall, a good place to work. Continue to encourage a scrappy can-do attitude and look for ways to continue to collaborate across divisions.