Starz Entertainment Reviews in Denver, CO Area

Pros

Great flexibility and great benefits

Cons

Salary is not very competitive

Advice to Senior Management

Raising salary with promotion can be better.

Pros

Great pay and benefits, very nice location, most of the people working there are professional and courteous.

Cons

Abysmal training, extremely unfair treatment by immediate supervisor, no recourse from HR.

Advice to Senior Management

If a senior manager personally interviews and hires an employee only to throw them under the bus for "job performance issues" inside of 90 days, pay close attention to that manager's practices and ethics.

Pros

Great 401k, great people, laid back environment if you get the right management team

Cons

If you get with the wrong management team you're sunk, because HR backs up management 100%

Advice to Senior Management

Treat people fairly. Force managers to do 360-degree reviews. Deal with poor managers.

Pros

Denver is a fabulous place to live; Starz offers good benefits; and it's a comfortable place to work if you aren't looking to be challenged.

Cons

Starz is very much a "business as usual" kind of place where experience, creativity, and drive are not rewarded. HR policies are peculiar and make it very difficult to move ahead. Top execs are uncommunicative and tolerate mismanagement and interdepartmental warfare.

Advice to Senior Management

Now, you are giving us the impresssion that you don't care and/or are afraid to take a risk. Give us a roadmap and hold people accountable for following it. Reach throughout the company to learn what's not working--then fix it.

Pros

If you love movies/films, and don't mind working for a highly bureaucratic organization way out in the middle of wind-whipped nowhere for meager pay and limited opportunities for advancement, Starz may be the place for you. I'll admit that some of the benefits at the time were pretty good (don't know about now), but of course they count on keeping you complacent with those so-called "golden handcuffs." Be sure you can live with that before taking the plunge.

Cons

Poor, non-competitive pay, remote location, surprisingly limited room to grow or move ahead for most employees, and managers who consistently REFUSE TO PROMOTE FROM WITHIN. Also, much time, money and effort are expended, year after year, in maddening, often pointless and counterproductive internal "reorganizations." All of this has resulted in chronically low morale among the troops, with many unhappy, even disgruntled, employees.

Advice to Senior Management

More so than in other places I've been employed, several of the managers/directors with/for whom I worked at Starz were at best inept, at worst, incompetent. Senior management should look more carefully at their long-term troops who've been doing the grunt work for years to find the REAL talent necessary to replace some of the showboaters and take SEG to the next level. For God's sake, start promoting *meaningfully* from within, and quit bringing in people from outside at higher salaries than those earned by folks who've been working their hearts out for you for years! Many of your most talented human assets remain invisible to you and thus grossly underutilized. Look and think anew, and get rid of the stifling managerial deadwood which has and will continue to drive so many of your best and brightest away.

Pros

Very open atmosphere as to when you can come or go. Isn't a punch the clock type of place. Supportive of presenting original thinking and ideas. Many good people.

Cons

Lack of a coherent strategy. Very short term focusesd. Makes a decision and then doesn't support it after. Claims to take risks but doesn't want any. Bean counters run the place.

Advice to Senior Management

Develop a strategy that is long term focused that everyone can get on board and stick with it. Listen to more than a few. Get rid of the people that are happy to just have a job and keep the people that want to do a job.

Pros

If you like movies, if you like an ever-changing work environment, Starz is a better-than-average place to work. There are a lot of creative people, and many opportunities to use your creativity. I enjoyed the people and working for the company very much, but, in the end, the skills and experience I took put me at the top of my potential on day one, which left no room for my personal growth.

Cons

It is a big company that tries to act like a small company. It is the third-place company of three premium networks, and the nearly-invisible partner of Netflix and Verizon, and, at one time, RealNetworks. Have you heard of Starz Play? Probably not. Have you heard of Vongo? Doesn't matter, it doesn't exist anymore.

Advice to Senior Management

Pick a direction, and stick with it. The company changes focus, direction, and logos every two years. How about building some core strengths to go after your primary competition? By reinventing the company so often, consumers have no recognition of the latest Starz branding, which means nobody will ever ask to add Starz service unless it is accidentally included in a package.

Pros

The service is profitable and is growing. Work load is not overwhelming. If you're desperate to work in Entertainment and want/need to stay in Denver then it might work for you.

Cons

management does not value the contributions of individual contributors. There is a core senior team and they are very insular. The President has poor people skills and is very uncomfortable with any activity around building employee morale. It is shocking how how little senior mgmnt communicates with employees.
Not a risk taking culture. Very Finance and Legal driven.

Advice to Senior Management

Not sure.