Hearst Reviews

Pros

Great Organization to work for

Cons

I can't think of a bad thing for this company

Pros

Some remote work available, benefits are pretty standard. Occasional small raises/small bonuses — not really enough to match inflation, but a bit better than other newsrooms I've worked in. At the production level, your coworkers will be competent and work well together, and your immediate managers will probably be pretty decent to good to work for.

Cons

I work on the print side of the newsroom, so suffice it to say it's grim and not likely to ever get better. Pay not nearly enough to justify the increasing workload and pressure and job security beyond the short term is dicey. Most of the lower-level managers are pretty good, but once you get beyond the production level, the quality degrades sharply. I would advise people to get out while they can, but if you're hell-bent on working on a print paper, I guess you could do worse.

Pros

-pay transparency -annual bonus -good benefits -strong sense of community

Cons

-The company’s refusal to go fully remote for all employees

Pros

Great people and fun environment to work in.

Cons

The only negative is the pay.

Pros

Benefits and pay are competitive

Cons

Slow growth but worth waiting for

Pros

Big company, many things to do.

Cons

the working environment depends very much on the department.

Pros

Great benefits while I was there.

Cons

Companies within various divisions differ significantly in culture, resources, and employee expectations. Mixed bag.

Pros

Good co-workers and great resources; notoriety from the company

Cons

Very difficult to move up and get a significant raise.

Pros

It's a really big, old, bureaucratic company. Of all the places I've worked, Hearst seems like the one where you'd have the opportunity to live the dream of getting hired, being forgotten about, and continuing to be paid without talking to anyone or doing any work once you've been in and shuffled around the system for a few years.

Cons

Pay is less than most other places. They're extremely stingy with raises and promotions (and may still be on a raise freeze) despite regular updates about how great business is. The best path to getting a promotion seems to be getting into the circle around the head of the tech department and his two lieutenants, but then you have to put up with being in that circle. Management shared anti-union misinformation when the editorial department was unionizing. The work is extremely boring. Maybe you'll get to style a template for a listicle. Maybe you'll work on some oauth thing. Maybe you'll get to integrate a poorly designs and supported 3rd party system. Maybe you'll make a tiny little PR to fix a CMS button's design. Maybe you'll do something else, but pretty much everything you do will be dull. You'll get to engage in cult-like levels of SCRUM. Standups, retros, and other assorted "ceremonies"

Pros

- Great communication flow from top down around company health, updates and milestones - Good effort to engage and focus on initiatives around DandI, working parents support, and volunteering opportunities - Good work life balance - this might be role dependent

Cons

- Markets have different organizational structures and processes which makes it hard to centralize operations