Pros
They certainly know how to make money and have loads of cash to show for it My co-workers were great to work with and came to Hearst full of energy and new ideas only to have their dreams dashed and their souls crushed by the antiquated management style of the department heads and their total lack of empathy for their staff members.
Cons
No trickle down of earnings to employees The department I work in has an approach to management that is both autocratic and archaic. A style that might have been appropriate for managing in the 1950's not the new Millennium. Management clearly has an ingrained distrust of everybody that works in the department. It's expected that you travel on your own time (weekends) in order to start work first thing Monday morning and return on a Saturday with no compensation time granted to make up for traveling on your personal time. What other company does that? Little to no opportunity for advancement Lack of communication and poor planning often result in last minute changes to scheduling upending personal lives in the process Turnover has been rampant and it's not because they can make more money somewhere else