Guardian News & Media Reviews
Updated Jan 19, 2021
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Pros
"Wonderful collegues, better work/life balance" (in 12 reviews)
"An excellent work culture, with great people and challenging work" (in 12 reviews)
Cons
"Senior management lack leadership skills and backbone to handle situations" (in 10 reviews)
"Rounds of redundancies makes for an anxious day to day" (in 7 reviews)
Pros & Cons are excerpts from user reviews. They are not authored by Glassdoor.
Pros
great company, values and wonderful people
Cons
there is nothing bad i can say!
"Great Culture"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookI have been working at Guardian News & Media full-time for more than a year
Pros
Easy job with low stress.
Cons
None I can think of.
Continue reading"great people, great journalism but not everyone is equal"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Guardian News & Media
Pros
-excellent colleagues -outstanding journalism; it's a privilege to work for a paper that breaks the types of stories we do -in NY office at least, people are open to ideas and will try to support them whenever they can
Cons
-can be slow and clunky b/c too many management levels -feels like there's an impenetrable inner circle so can feel hard to see how you can progress -poor formal development structure
Continue reading"Very comfortable working environment"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Guardian News & Media
Pros
diverse staff, great resources, comfortable environment
Cons
divided office, not enough integration of commercial and editorial
Continue reading"The people are amazing"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsNeutral OutlookI worked at Guardian News & Media full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
It's so true I'll say is twice. The people are amazing. Very good work/life balance Managers are very understanding when it comes to personal problems
Cons
Bonus structure was always very complicated and difficult to achieve at times due to the many layers it was made up of (some of those things being out of your control) Due to the fact it is a huge nearly 200 year old organisation it can be very stuck in it's ways when it comes to processes and implementing new ideas Personal progress was always very slow and promotions were hard to come by
"Great people, slow management"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at Guardian News & Media full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
The people are the best, until they get made redundant
Cons
Rounds of redundancies makes for an anxious day to day
Continue reading- Helpful (1)
"Absolutely not living their values"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Guardian News & Media full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Prestige, freedom to coast for years on end if you wish.
Cons
No progression except for a few selected people. Classist. Poorly motivated staff. No training. Very poor management. Kath took over with no vision for what to do with the Guardian so has allowed the finance teams to take over and gut the place of talent.
- COVID-19
"Amazing people who are undervalued by the business"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Guardian News & Media full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Amazing colleagues who are bright, interesting and ambitious. The business offers brilliant training opportunities, it's great place to start in an entry level role. The Guardian is well respected, it stands out on your CV. You can be proud to work here - Guardian journalism genuinely has an impact that makes the world a better place. Kings Cross office - great spot for commuting and cool area in general. Company benefits are pretty good.
Cons
The salary isn't up to par, they rely on the staff wanting to work there out of pride and the fact that it is a nice place to work - this can make you feel undervalued and constantly thinking of what you could get elsewhere. The 'restructure' that occurred under new management during the pandemic was an absolute mess, people were at risk of redundancy for 6 months knowing they would have to re-apply for the job they already do. This left staff feeling even more undervalued meaning that many of them chose not to re-apply, so now the business is hiring externally - a symptom of a poorly managed re-structure.
Continue reading Pros
Wonderful collegues, better work/life balance
Cons
lots of meetings, business direction something not very confusing
- Helpful (1)
"A mature, welcoming digital department with lots to offer"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookI worked at Guardian News & Media full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
There is a strong culture of mentoring, teaching, and sharing knowledge throughout the department. There is plenty of opportunity to work across the whole stack, frontend, backend, dev-ops, data engineering and teams are largely cross functional where there is resource for it. Hours are flexible - you will generally be left to manage your own time and won't be micromanaged on this front. Depending on the product, there is the opportunity to work closely with other functions within the business such as journalism and marketing.
Cons
Because the tech stack is so established, there isn't so much of a need to get your hands dirty with dev ops / deployments. This could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on what you are after. The process for prioritising work wasn't that smooth - OKRs and planning often overran and weren't totally embedded in the teams that were doing the work.
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