Strong Team Undermined by Lack of Strategic Resource Planning - Marketing Director Horizon Media Employee Review

Great place to work. Laid back work environment and positive energy around the company. Most employees are very happy here. Great work/life balance. Privately owned and the owner genuinely cares about his employees. Pay is average, but the culture, work/life balance and Hybrid work makes it a place to want to stay around.

Being a privately owned company, the direction of the company can change like the wind so people who are looking for a place that has a concrete future plan, this may not be the place, but that is similar in most media companies. Once the company experienced its first "down" couple of years, it stopped giving out bonuses even when finances improved. A lot of company runs in a Ad-Hoc way so things can be totally different from group to group.

Unlimited PTO Nice office space Medium sized - ability to get to know people Regular check ins Wellness retreat room, game rooms and 2 desk-bikes

- Lots of turnover (2 layoff rounds in less than 6 months) - Not much diversity or community since room booking system is unreliable - Fired the person under me just a couple weeks after my start date? It felt like I was set up for failure since clearly it had been a topic before I even joined…especially since this was in the middle of peak holiday Q4. - On my first day, I was told that my direct manager would be replaced in 2 months for leave - Backfills kept getting postponed and postponed again for months - Too lenient with SLAs and not very respectful to employees who voice concern - Disconnected leadership on processes and bottom line strategy details - Many other teams seemed understaffed and overwhelmed - Their “pod structure” seems to be more of a term for employees jumping in to execute campaigns that aren’t for their assigned client. It seemed like way to make up for understaffing. There would often be employees begging in chat for help on builds. - Leadership doesn’t always know how to deliver feedback and can also contradict themselves or even set double standards