Turner Broadcasting Reviews in Atlanta, GA Area

Pros

Laid back atmosphere, diverse group of coworkers, great personal and professional development courses or seminars that occurred regularly, creativity is encouraged

Cons

Large size may make it hard to meet people in other departments
Internships vary by department which is a downside and can lead to inconsistent experiences; thus, I encourage anyone interning to try to at least intern for a year so you can experience interning in different departments. If this is not possible, then try your darndest to interact with other departments and learn more about what they do during your internship. This will be self-motivated, don't rely on HR to coordinate these opportunities for you. Those who had the best internships were the ones who not only did the work for their department well, but also explored other areas and got to know people. Don't be afraid to step out.

Advice to Senior Management

Never really engaged with management while an intern although office was right down the hall. It was as if no one but the higher ups spoke to her. It was strange. I think this may be specific to where I worked though (TNT)

Pros

Benefits are stellar
Networking groups and free training at the Professional Development Center (PDC) to expand anyone's career knowledge base
Great Senior Management (within Enterprise Applications)
Discounts to local attractions and sporting events in Atlanta

Cons

Favoritism
Poor feedback from all levels of Recruiting (constantly hearing negative feedback from outside Recruiting vendors on candidates submitted)
Hard to get a straight answer from anyone in the Corporate Recruiting department
Anyone that chooses not to "play along" is blacklisted from the company

Pros

Great company with a great product.

Cons

Finance community is filled with lifers who are promoted well beyond their capabilities. The HR group doesn't listen at all to employees; they only listed to high ranking Executives.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of your Finance executives and start over.

Pros

- Diverse workforce and appealing work culture
- Exciting technology and challenging projects
- Impetus on work life balance

Cons

- Lack of transparency in the employee grade structure
- Some parts still in transition to "big company" work style

Pros

Great benefits, good learning experience.

Cons

Some people in there know how to work the system to their benefit. If these individuals are on the top of the chain (especially as your manager) they will make your life miserable; work on vacation, do unnecessary work and stay up until 2 in the morning at least 3 times a week and still get yelled at kind of miserable.

Advice to Senior Management

There are a lot of people who work for this company, and it's hard to keep track of who you've hired and what kind of work they have been doing. My entire team has been miserable and that is due to the way our manager treats and abuses us. I have spoken to HR about this problem and I later learned that other employees in the network have done the same. This is a great company and the job is my dream job. However, it's a shame that we wake up in the morning expecting to be yelled at about either a minute mistake (which is common when we're overworked like we have been) or a mistake that we didn't even make (i.e.: reading my manager's mind). We have been completely cut off to any information about the network's progress and are assigned projects without any explanation.

Enough with the complaints. I would either have HR meet with all employees (no managers involved), and ask them how they feel about their managers. or I would make the online survey about your manager mandatory.

Pros

Excellent health and wellness benefits, discounts

Cons

Limited management support, concerns around job security

Pros

Great Benefits
Lots of networking opportunities
A lot of entertainment and cultural opportunities
Opportunities to shadow other departments

Cons

Career growth is not great
Salary is uninspiring
Not enough mental stimulation

Advice to Senior Management

Give out more responsibility

Pros

Great benefits, extremely intelligent peers and superiors, great perks, good food, incredible PTO, especially if you get on the newsroom schedule, pretty good about comp time when PTO may be blocked for major projects, opportunities for growth and advancement, growth and advancement supported by superiors, good goal-setting and review process, fun work environment (Techwood campus), good employee care (esp. when long hours are required), information sharing is good on a macro scale, opportunities for making changes to processes and customs.

Cons

Information sharing on a micro scale is not so good, mainly due to the fact that departments are siloed; but this is being actively improved by many departments.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to work to increase collaboration and departmental intercommunication. Agile processes have greatly improved this within our team.

Pros

It really is the only game in town for big-time national broadcasting and entertainment, and the perks that go along with that can be really fun.

Cons

The downsides have been few and far between in my experience. Cost-cutting measures in recent years have reduced some of the auxiliary benefits (local attraction tickets, field trips, etc.), but not enough to make it unfun.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to foster intra-channel communication -- especially when we're expected to present a united front to our parent company Time Warner.

Pros

The benefits are great. There are company wide opportunities for movement. Programs are available for employees to learn about other jobs and divisions.

Cons

Middle managers are allowed to hand promotions to people they like, even if they don't have experience or qualifications for the job. Human resources has been slow or unable to correct the problem.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management needs to see that middle management positions are given to employees with adequate experience and qualifications. Morale is bad enough without employees having to report to people who have no idea what their direct reports do and no interest in learning. It used to be nearly unheard of for someone with no experience in a position to be given the responsibility of managing people in that position. It happens much too often now. Morale and the product suffers for it.