Pros
-Private company -You can find incredibly nice and genuine people here -Summer Fridays -Work-Life balance -OK benefits
Cons
Crown Media is essentially your average TV media company, marked by an outdated culture & archaic management structure. The main takeaway here is that Crown is just stuck in the past, there is very little innovative or exciting about Crown. Like most older TV media companies, career advancement is a slow and belaboring prospect, be ready to play a ton of office politics. There is also severe micromanagement at seemingly all levels, leaving little room for self-expression, creativity & autonomy. Be ready to do everything by the book, and have every little thing you do watched over. There is a strong reluctance to transform and move towards the future. New ideas are often met with much resistance, as upper management clings to the old values of the past, impeding any future growth. What's also concerning is that young people are just not watching Hallmark either, and no wonder... the network is enshrouded in old, conservative values that are failing to take a hold on the youngest generations. The network has no culture tie in to these generations either, this all goes back to the way the company is ran. There is little room for help if the innovative people in the company are not listened to.