Washington Post Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Washington Post full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice Colleagues
Work from home option
DC Downtown
Latest Technology

Cons – Boring environment
No onsite cafeteria
No Coffee

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Washington Post full-time

Pros – Decent pay for the region

Cons – Bad Commute if not living in DC

Advice to Senior Management – Please connect with your team

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Washington Post

Pros – The people at the Post are great to work with! Additionally, the firm is exploring new ventures and is working to advance the synergy of its digital and print products.

Cons – At the same time, the increasing use of tablets and other print substitutes have put a lot of pressure on the firm.

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

Current Employee – been working at Washington Post full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great benefits, education package and personal development.

Cons – Company is contracting in an effort to find good sales strategy in the face of government scrutiny. Must be top producer with verbal talent to survive in the sales division of the company. Slackers need not apply because you will get three strikes and your out. There are performance expectation for each term and if you miss three you are terminated.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more honest in your conversations about expectations. People seem to believe there can be reprieve from termination is goal expectations are not met by intervention of management and that is not the case.

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 Washington Post full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The people that do the actual work are great people. The tech side of the house is actually filled with very intelligent people.

Cons – Leadership is astoundingly bad. There's 0 vision for the company, other than trying to maintain what's left of print circulation. Projects are started and killed a year later despite success. There's no rhyme or reason to anything.

Watch massive layoffs to hit the operating income (100's of people), and then the publisher will take a $3million bonus for hitting the target.

The industry is only getting worse, and there are absolutely zero plans in progress to address the downward spiral.

At this point Don is treating the company like a charity, not a business.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in your growth sectors, fire every single one of your executives, cut the middle management, and produce better content. You need ONE person with vision and some people to execute. You currently have around 40 "leaders" with no vision at all.

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

Former Employee – worked at Washington Post full-time

Pros – Opportunity to learn, good work environment

Cons – downtown parking expensive, depend on public transportation

Current Employee – been working at Washington Post full-time for more than a year

Pros – nothing..This organization is a joke for any self respecting ambitious professional

Cons – Run away from this. No direction or vision. The executives have no idea what does digital/ mobile world means. Very incompetent and unethical company. I am surprised how it has still been part of Berkshire portfolio. This business should not be in existence since it does more harm than good to the society. Content is produced by third grade editorial team that has no respect for what user wants in the current times.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop cooking books for making year end bonuses. Face reality. Print is dying. Adapt to mobile/digital world, way other businesses did.

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

Former Employee – worked at Washington Post full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – -Competitive salaries.
-Excellent benefits,one of the best Health Insurance plans.
-Brand Name(at least in Wash,DC Metro Area) -- once you have this name on your resume be assured no one will look down on you,be it for contracting or full time opportunities.

Cons – **I work in IT and I have seen Newsroom very very closely.I have informed opinion about both**

Lets be honest,newspaper industry is going through a tough phase.Now if you are in Newspaper industry you have to absorb the shocks which are coming from upper management,knee jerk reactions,and witness lot of bloodbath in terms of employees getting laid etc.Bottom line, you are at the mercy of new CIO,your manager,and the budget.Performance doesn't matter.

When the time was good(till 2010ish),IT was treated as a step child and people(publishers etc.) were happy making money from Print.The decline was there but not that alarming.Now when a notable decline came in 2010ish everyone panicked. McKinsey etc. were called and they suggested hey,you know what this is digital age...duh..The wake up call turned into hiring of new CIO and his nickel and dimming.Coffee machines were removed and replaced with vending machines.Employees were laid off by calling them "inefficiencies".No lunches,no Happy hours.Compensation took a severe hit,and growth opportunities were never there.Oh and there is no place for training and company paying for learning new tech.So,now IT is like a code generating machine,which WPO wants to use it 24*7 for making money and it's survival.Post being a gandalf has old employees who worked on Unix all their lives.I call them worthless boulders bcz they just dont want to leave or learn.Journalists work all their lives in print and doing typesetting etc., so for them digital CMS system is a blackbox.They dont want to learn it and keep making mistakes bcz of not getting proper training.FF today,Post is making a desperate attempt to expand it's digital platform(results can be seen by the products launched in 2012) and investing in Mobile technologies.To call situation at Post pressure cooker is an understatement.Work-Life balance is missing since at least past 1.5 years.No one job is secure.All in all,if you want to join this company expect nothing but your paycheck.No you can't have weekends.Period.

Tell yourself that you are here just to have that brand name on your resume so that you can find a better life elsewhere with normal work schedules and not feel treated like garbage.

Advice to Senior Management – None.As if they listen to us -:)

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Washington Post full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great co-workers, most clients are easy to work with, exposure to a wide variety of technologies while I was working there

Cons – Layoffs and Buyouts due to decreased earnings for the Post means job security isn't that great, unless you are managment

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Washington Post as a contractor for more than 8 years

Pros – The work is easy, the money is good and if you can obtain a route that pays and tips well, then you won't have any problems.

Cons – The people that directly manage the carriers have no skills as managers and more often than not, the problems that arise, NEVER get taken care of, and the complacentcy shows in the work ethics of the others, the loss of revenue on the routes-due to poor customer service they quit or never renew their subscriptions. The paycheck only comes once a month, and the vehicle maintenance, gas and wear and tear sometimes does sometimes exceed the money that is paid each month.

Advice to Senior Management – They need to survey the people that are delivering the papers to see what they know about the daily work routine. As far as the upper management knows, that everything runs smooth and they have no idea that there is no communication, no disipline and no accountability for the errors that continue to go on.

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