News Corp Reviews

Pros

Competitive salary once you are full time and even temping

Cons

Highly demanding work load most of the time

Advice to Senior Management

Training policy could be improved

Pros

- Great starting sales position
- High Energy
- Family Oriented
- Flexible

Cons

- Cap on bonuses
- Tough to move through management terms

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

Lot of interesting work done. A good learning experience. Not hierarchy driven. Very encouraging to new ideas. very friendly people

Cons

Not many cons to write about. Its a good place to work. The work hours are stressful. Due to the dynamic industry the timings can be steep

Advice to Senior Management

There is a need to breed in house talent to take up positions of responsibility. Developing cross functional capabilities is still nascent.

Pros

The opportunities for cross training and advancement are great especially because the company is so large. Recent reorganizations have improved the efficiencies within the organization.

Cons

The communication could be better and teams could take a less silo-ed approach to the business and customers.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue investing in your people and streamlining processes where possible. Redundancies and poor communication not only slow progress but expose weakness to prospects and customers.

Pros

Product
Freedom
People
Good work / life balance

Cons

Declining industry
Promotions aren't given as often as deserved

Pros

Very entrepreneurial
Flexible
Encouraged to generate ideas

Cons

Processes unstructured
Entities do not talk to each other that much

Pros

Good social and working environment.

Cons

not a lot of opportunity for growth in GA.

Advice to Senior Management

Please do not ignore your regional offices.

Pros

The starting pay / benefits is better than the industry average.

Cons

Quality and creativity continue to be sacrificed to the automation gods with no consideration beyond cost-saving.

Advice to Senior Management

From top to bottom, your employees have made you successful. Automation/Outsourcing will never replace the experience and talent you're loosing.

Pros

work/life balance is easily maintainable

Cons

growth is difficult, unless someone leaves

Advice to Senior Management

promote inner growth

Pros

Management was competent and fair.

Cons

Management did not allow a good work/life balance.

Advice to Senior Management

Respect that employees have a life outside of their jobs.