New York Times Reviews

Former Employee – worked at New York Times as an intern for less than a year

Pros – I worked at the New York Times Company as a summer trainee in '11 and I must confess this was by far the best company I ever worked in. I was summer trainee in Internal Audit, everything was really great. HR was almost perfect really present, training was done the best way I've seen and can figure out... It was in New York Offices and we had Freedom to work as much and move or learn. We met most of the teams... Anything you can imagine, was great in a word.

Cons – No idea. Honestly. Probably the financial situation of the newspaper? This was shortly before Jane's dissmissal.

Advice to Senior Management – Find a way to get money ; useless advice as they probably starve to reach this aim right now.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at New York Times full-time for more than a year

Pros – The place is starved for ideas and even more starved for ideas that can become products. If you have them, they'll take them. And probably ruin them.

Cons – If you are a technical hire, you are working at-will. You can be fired at any time for any reason or no reason at all. My estimate is that ~20% of NYTimes technical hires are let go in semi-regular purges. Those purges are bound to be more frequent as the Times ads business tanks and the company's new product failures pile up.

Advice to Senior Management – The NYTimes is not making progress toward being an innovative tech company. If you think there is progress, it's an illusion, just managers shuffling staff and spinning their wheels.

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

Former Employee – worked at New York Times full-time for more than a year

Pros – Amazing office and cafeteria.

Extremely talented developers.

The opportunity to work with some of most talented journalists in the world.

Flexible on time off and decent health benefits.

Looks great on your resume.

Cons – Stagnant leadership: The senior management team are "institutionalized" lifers that lack hands on digital business experience outside of the Times.

nepotism: promotions, resources and high visibility projects are often given to friends of senior management without regard for skills or experience.

class divide: the place is controlled by a clique of 1 percenter Ivy League MBA's that have little regard for the ideas and opinions of anyone outside their group.

lack of diversity: for all of the ethnic diversity in NYC , only a small percentage of the overall management ranks are ethnic minorities.

constant turnover: talented and dedicated employees are constantly leaving because of the insular management and lack of advancement opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on career development and promote employees based on skills and not their academic credentials or socioeconomic class.

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 New York Times full-time for more than a year

Pros – Commute to Times Square is easy.

Some genuinely smart people work here.

It's a brand people actually recognize.

Company work hours are pretty flexible.

Cons – Oh boy:

Complete lack of direction from upper and middle management. Teams even under the same director actively do not speak to one another, causing a litany of fiefdoms, duplication of effort, and other forms of waste and intrigue.

Nepotism is extremely strong here. Managers seem to heavily favor people with whom they have worked before. You can see waves of people flocking in from <insert company here> at a given time because they have hired someone in management from <insert company here>. No actual vetting of these people can occur and it's outright heresy to question.

The company has a schizophrenic culture based on young people fresh into the field wanting to only do new things to older people stuck in the past wanting to only do things their way. There is often little to no middle ground or attempts to create standards, with phrases such as "it stifles innovation" strewn about.

Retention rates are abysmal. In less than two years I have become a long-timer. That not only leads to a constant brain drain, but it has created so many promotions of the "last man standing" as to exacerbate the poor quality of the middle management. Promotions are also so irregularly given with some groups heavily favored by management over others without merit or reason that it hastens the departure of the actually talented.

Advice to Senior Management – Uh, speak to each other once in a while and try to actually create some standards within the organization, or you'll continue to sink a ship already in a dying industry.

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

Former Employee – worked at New York Times full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – We great company to work for , Management is very great in giving directions for team. Diversified team , onshore/offshore model .

Cons – Since its onshore/offshore model , you need to work late hours also

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

Former Employee – worked at New York Times full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – You're furthering a mission that's actually worth something positive for the world. The technology can be very forward leaning, depending on the group you're working with. Nice office space and generally smart co-workers.

Cons – The kind of work you'll get to do can be highly variable in terms of how interesting it is based on what team you're working with. Of the major IT groups, NYTD probably gets the most interesting work on a day to day basis. Be forewarned that some of the middle management are absolutely terrible and can be very demoralizing to work for if you're unlucky enough to land on their team, and the higher management is not clueful enough to notice (or, worse, doesn't care) that some teams have double-digit annual turnover while others in the same group have zero.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay close attention to attrition of technical staff under different managers. If you've any hope of one day transcending ink-on-paper, NYTD will likely form the core of whatever method that is.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at New York Times full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – lots of talent. people want to do good work and it gets done.

Cons – poor life/work balance. not very family friendly.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at New York Times full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Prestige. Beautiful office. Excellent cafeteria. At parties I'm the "New York Times guy".

Cons – Departments do not speak to each other. Getting things done is a slow slow process. Compensation and benefits and perks on the low end of industry.

Advice to Senior Management – Retain talent. This is a great place to learn, but there is a non-stop brain drain of people leaving for more money/benefits elsewhere.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at New York Times full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Decent benefits; 35-hour work week;

Cons – Shortened staff and increased workload because of recent buyouts/layoffs. Little overtime.

Advice to Senior Management – none

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at New York Times as an intern for less than a year

Pros – access to great, informed people; access to wonderful resources; the cafeteria is AWESOME

Cons – I did not find many cons for the Company. I think it's a great place to start or continue your journalism career

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend