Turner Broadcasting Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Turner Broadcasting as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Organized, people were easy to get to know and very personable. I felt well-trained but had a good deal of independence.

Cons – Some intern tasks seem arbitrary and monotonous. Working in a cubicle all day can be a bummer. People were generally sociable and nice

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

Former Employee – worked at Turner Broadcasting

Pros – Good benefits and family friendly work environment

Cons – Career advancement may be difficult

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Turner Broadcasting full-time

Pros – Has a good work/life balance

Cons – Has very slow upward mobility

Advice to Senior Management – Define and support paths for advancement.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Turner Broadcasting full-time

Pros – Still trying to figure out the pros for working here

Cons – Ted Turner's way of treating his people are long gone. LOW Salary and Horrible Management

Advice to Senior Management – Stop living in the past successes of the company, it is okay to adapt to the changing seasons while maintaining the integrity of the company. Your brand is nothing without the people behind the scene yet you treat them as if they're worthless and insignificant to the company. Your salary is not competitive, your benefits are not beneficial when the employee has to pay most of it out of pocket and your perks are not that great. This is why people leave the company.

Current Employee – been working at Turner Broadcasting

Pros – This was a very hands-on experience. I feel that I really got to see how the company functions. I would definitely recommend this program to others.

Cons – I feel that they gave a lot of busy work. I feel that I got in the way a lot, and that others were annoyed that an intern was following them around.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Turner Broadcasting as an intern for less than a year

Pros – always giving opportunities to interns and new employees. lots of responsibility. feel part of a team.

Cons – none. was extremely happy to be here.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Turner Broadcasting full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Interesting, diverse work environment, opportunity to learn, good benefits, strong brand name on your resume

Cons – My only real complaint would be compensation. Entry level pay is very low and yearly increases don't help much. High turnover rate for entry level positions

Advice to Senior Management – Increase pay, provide more perks to entry level employees to help offset low pay. Create more opportunities for promotion

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Turner Broadcasting full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Adequate benefits which you won't have time to use due to 24 by 7 culture.

Cons – Expected to be available at all times since that would reduce the bonus for management if they hired more staff.

Technical management has never worked anywhere but Turner. A lack of knowledge about other methods of performing functions and goals isn't acquired.

Bullying, harassing managers are merely moved onto exciting projects where they can continue their behavior rather than be fired. HR has no power in technical areas. In the nearly 7 years I was there, we had over 7 different HR reps.

Lack of trained technical staff results in senior technical people having to get up in the middle of the night to deal with minor issues.

Service delivery managers and their staff are directing technical solutions for which they are not competent to be making.

Technology Services has no architects; but, senior engineering staff is expected to perform architecture, engineering and operations activities.

Monitoring staff is unable to handle service requests after hours that are normally handled by the Call Center during business hours.

50% turnover in staff in major support areas.

New technology is implemented with no training; yet, is expected to be able to support products.

A review of service tickets would reveal that only certain members of staff are addressing service requests.

Some technical staff have been working on projects and not addressing daily operations work for over 5 years.

Lack of recognition for implementing a major project with little or no assistance that directly impacted major infrastructure servers and the majority of Windows OS workstations and laptops.

Infighting amongst and between teams encouraged by Service Director, so that no one asks what value he brings by hiding in his office all day.

Culture of repercussions for stating there are issues that should be addressed and making recommendations to do so.

Advice to Senior Management – Terminate the CIO and CTO as both of them are incompetents that were hired by an executive that was fired for sexual harassment. The CIO was informed of the issues over 7 years ago and has taken no action.

Terminate the SVP of Technology Services. He has known of the issues for years.

Note that I am the person that commented on the survey that Technology Services never asked our clients what they expected of us and that was determined to be one of the major goals for the entire service organization in 2009. So Turner senior management must have thought I knew the area very well.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Turner Broadcasting full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good People.
Great Benefits
Fun/Unique Projects.

Cons – Large corporate structure. Could get lost in the shuffle. Becoming less of a creative environment and more of a corporate one. Also poor pay structure.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to mentor and encourage your employees to better themselves. Try to conduct a mid year review to make sure the employees goals are on track.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Turner Broadcasting full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Quality products, top of the industry, great place to work

Cons – Lots of red tape and approval processes required

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend